Targeted funding for both family doctors and specialists in British Columbia is apparently soothing traditionally tense relations between the two groups.
Policy-makers won’t be able to ignore the comprehensive curriculum renewal of undergraduate programs at the University of British Columbia’s medical school outlined in a new report, says one of its principals.
Two stalwart members of the British Columbia Medical Association wonder why their board has done little with a popular, badly-needed resolution approved without debate at the group’s annual meeting last year.
The spokesman for British Columbia’s family doctors is sanguine about a health ministry promise to provide a GP for every resident of the province by 2015.