Archive for December, 2010

New Dashboard and Analytics for Page Owners

We’ve been working hard on our major feature release coming in January but we managed to squeeze in a couple of updates for Clinic page owners! Clinicbook is now boasting a brand-new revamped page administration dashboard allowing you to more easily customize your page and post clinic information. We want to make this as easy [...]

Are routine child health visits really necessary?

This is a special article from the BC Medical Journal (www.bcmj.org) Family physicians are perfectly positioned to identify and assess children with developmental vulnerability and assist in providing interventions that will ultimately lead to a reduction in this vulnerability. I ask a few questions about Susan’s general health and development and examine her. She has [...]

The need for long-term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors in British Columbia

This is a special article from the BC Medical Journal (www.bcmj.org) Initiating a prospective surveillance system and follow-up registry would contribute to the health and well-being of British Columbians who have received cancer treatment as children or adolescents. ABSTRACT: Many survivors of childhood cancer have incomplete knowledge of their past treatment and are unaware of [...]

Video interview: BC Family Physician of the Year: Dr Ronald Wilson

Dr Wilson is dedicated to underserviced populations while being innovative and committed to teaching, mentoring, and providing leadership in collaborative multidisciplinary care. Watch a video interview with Dr Wilson and read the article in the December issue of the BCMJ. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri-j2h2eKcg[/tube] Read the full interview at http://www.bcmj.org/interviews/bc-family-physician-year-dr-ronald-wilson

Video: Lights, Camera, Surgery

This is a special article from the BC Medical Journal (www.bcmj.org): Video procedure: Lights, Camera, Surgery: Take 2 A unique program brings junior medical students together with mentors to create educational videos. Watch the following video,Excisional Biopsy. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8fwJPwaG5c[/tube] For more information, visit http://www.bcmj.org

Rectal Cancer Management

This is a special article from the BC Medical Journal (www.bcmj.org) on Rectal cancer management A high local recurrence rate for rectal cancer has been reduced with the help of new clinical practice guidelines. ABSTRACT: An audit of data from 1996 found a high rate of local recurrence in patients with rectal cancer in British [...]