Licensing

Instead of going to war with doctors, how about politicians focus on meaningful solutions to retain the physicians we train, says Dr. Sohail Gandhi.

Québec pharmacy owner Réjean Lemay sold his pharmacy just weeks before the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec imposed a one-month suspension and college costs.

Junior doctors—those in the first years of their careers—make up almost half of all NHS doctors.

The Nova Scotia college heard “serious concerns” from B.C.’s College of Pharmacists about the doctor, who lives in the U.S. but is licensed in Nova Scotia as a non-resident.

Ontario endocrinologist Dr. Elika Safar Zadeh also threatened to jeopardize the patient’s child custody status by filing a lawsuit for harassment and defamation, according to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal.

The Alberta Pharmacists’ Association has created a new online tool to help provisional pharmacists connect with preceptors.

Two Vancouver private health facilities and four patients argued that provisions of the Medicare Protection Act violate constitutional rights due to long waits for care in B.C.’s publicly funded system.

Regulatory policy changes at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario include removal of assessment and supervision requirements for doctors trained and board-certified in the U.S.