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Restricting Sick Notes

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physician burdens, burnout, cumulative impact, primary care
April 2024
Professional Satisfaction | Resolution

Doctors of BC believes that requirements for employees to provide sick notes to satisfy an employer’s medical absenteeism policy is often an inefficient use of physicians’ time, places an avoidable burden on health sector resources, and unnecessarily exposes the population to communicable diseases by forcing ill patients to leave their homes. As such, Doctors of BC recommends that the provincial government restrict public and private sector employers’ ability to require sick notes to circumstances where a patient has taken extended leave and where a physician can provide meaningful clinical insight.

Gender Equity in the Medical Profession

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Equity Diversity Inclusion, physician burdens, burnout, physician wellness, job satisfaction, medical students, residents, psychological safety, leadership training, Workplace safety, mental health
January 2023
Professional Satisfaction | Policy Statement
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Doctors of BC recognizes that gender inequity is a societal issue that affects female physicians negatively in areas like income, career advancement, mental health, and job satisfaction. We commit to taking action on this issue by tracking gender representation in the association, supporting efforts to address the gender pay gap, applying GBA+ in decision-making, reviewing parental leave benefits, and helping members access resources mentorship and leadership opportunities. Doctors of BC recommends that government, physician employers, and medical schools take similar actions to identify, resolve, and prevent gender inequity and address issues of bias and discrimination in the workplace and medical training.

 

Creating Space for Doctors to Be Doctors: A Cumulative Impact Lens on Physician Demands

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physician burdens, burnout, physician wellness, job satisfaction, access to care, cumulative impact, physician workflow, health care delivery, systemic impact
December 2022
Professional Satisfaction | Policy Paper
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Doctors of BC Position: Physicians are faced with a growing number of demands that can lead to unmanageable time constraints, and expectations to deliver beyond what can be reasonably expected in a single day. Many of these demands, such as paperwork, charting, and EMR management, do not allow physicians time to provide the best possible patient care, and can negatively affect physician wellbeing. Doctors of BC calls on all health care stakeholders to carefully consider how any new ask or proposed change may affect the wider health care system’s accessibility and quality. Health care stakeholders are encouraged to use the Burdens Solutions Tool, a new framework for assessing new, existing, and potential demands on physician time.

Physician Burdens

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physician burdens, burnout, physician wellness, job satisfaction, access to care, cumulative impact, physician workflow, health care delivery, systemic impact
February 2021
Professional Satisfaction | Policy Statement
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Doctors of BC Position: Physicians are faced with a growing number of demands that can lead to unmanageable time constraints and expectations to deliver beyond what can be reasonably expected in a single day. Doctors of BC encourages all health care stakeholders to carefully consider how any new ask or proposed change may ripple through the health care system to impact quality and accessibility of care and physician workflow using a ‘cumulative impact lens’ prior to implementation.

Improving Access to Acute Care Services

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access to care, acute care, beds, wait times, delays, burnout, capacity, complex care, hospital admissions, overcrowding, recruitment and retention
August 2008
Access to Care | Policy Paper
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Doctors of BC Position: Doctors of BC supports a number of recommendations on improving acute care services in BC. Efforts to improve access to acute care must focus on establishing wait time benchmarks for acute care, increasing supply of acute care beds, managing beds effectively, investing in community-based care, and improving government accountability. To better predict areas of need and to better allocate acute care resources, additional data collection and modelling is needed that is based on the realities of the practice setting and should be developed in collaboration with practicing physicians.