Webinar
June 13, 2023

As part of our ongoing advocacy efforts, earlier this year Doctors of BC asked for your thoughts on three topics relevant to your work, and to the profession as a whole: scope of practice for health care professionals, substance use care, and mental health/mental...

Female doctor writing notes
December 2, 2022

Medicine is a demanding profession, and the pressure physicians experience continues—in many cases, negatively impacting physician wellbeing and the health care system overall. Individually, demands are not necessarily stressful, but the accumulation and compound...

September 10, 2020

Doctors of BC is looking for physicians interested in developing policy on issues related to decriminalization and pharmaceutical alternatives (safe supply) to street drugs. The new Project Working Group on Decriminalization, Safe Supply, and Addiction Care will work under the guidance of the...

September 8, 2020

The range and volume of personal health data collected and accessible through a variety of sources, including administrative claims, mobile devices, social media, and electronic medical record systems (EMRs), is rapidly growing. There is widespread agreement that EMR data is valuable for...

Change to influenza policy
December 6, 2019

The Provincial Influenza Prevention Policy requires that medical staff and other health care providers and contractors in publicly-funded facilities are either immunized or wear a mask when in patient care areas during the flu season. Under the policy introduced in 2012, failure to do this could...