BC rural locums, residents, physicians transitioning from full-time practice, and new to rural providers are encouraged to save the date now for the 2019 Rural Locum Forum, being held in Nanaimo on Friday, May 24, 2019. This half day event will offer participants accredited CME/CPD, along with the opportunity … Continue reading
VANCOUVER – Mr. Doug Blackie and Dr. Edward Marquis will be co-leading RCCbc’s review of the Rural Retention Program (RRP), including an assessment of the community points system used to allocate medical benefits and funding to BC’s rural physicians and rural communities. They began working on this project on August … Continue reading
Fall is here – and with the changing of the leaves and the return of children to school comes more continuing medical education learning opportunities! UBC Rural Continuing Professional Development (Rural CPD) has several new offerings for rural BC providers. Rural Rounds These videoconference rounds are offered between 8:00 am … Continue reading
Submitted by the BC Emergency Medicine Network Join the BC Emergency Medicine Network for a Q+A session about the new Patient Transfer Network on Friday, Sept 28 at the St. Paul’s Emergency Update in Whistler. The session will take place over lunch (free!) – bring your questions and comments about … Continue reading
Submitted by the BC College of Family Physicians The BC College of Family Physicians is interested in offering the Learning Essentials Approach to Palliative Care (LEAP) course in your community. LEAP provides the essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach. It is evidence-based, peer reviewed and evaluated and … Continue reading
After receiving feedback from the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada, as well as individual rural physicians from across the country, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) revised its new policy “Expectations of Physicians Not Certified in Emergency … Continue reading
We’re asking for your help in keeping our Rural Communities Map current! The Rural Communities Map collects publicly available information about amenities and health care services in most of BC’s Rural Subsidiary Agreement communities. The site is used by medical learners, trainees, medical health organizations, rural residents, and tourists to … Continue reading
We received several applications for the latest round of Rural Physician Research Support Project and Rural Global Healthcare Partnership Initiative grants. Successful applicants will be notified shortly. If you are interested in applying for these grants, the next intake deadline will be Wednesday, October 31, 2018. This will allow you to … Continue reading
Online registration for both the Rural Locum Forum and the BC Rural Health Conference will be available until May 3, 2018. After this date, participants wishing to attend the conference must register for these rural CME/CPD events on site at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre (101 Gordon Street) in Nanaimo, … Continue reading
The Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc) and the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues (JSC) are pleased to announce The Rural Global Health Partnership Initiative (RGHPI), a new program providing funding to support partnerships between rural BC physicians or medical trainees committed to rural service, and lower resource communities in … Continue reading