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...

June 22, 2018

Doctors of BC's Representative Assembly (RA) has re-elected a number of Directors to the 2018/19 Board. GP representatives Drs Jeff Dresselhuis and Lawrence Welsh will return to the Board following a vote by the RA at its June meeting.  The two Specialist representatives re-elected by...

Diversity
October 16, 2017

One of the things that attracted me to medicine was the variety of opportunities within the medical field. Consider the entry-level medical student as a pluripotent stem cell with virtually unlimited choices for future development. You can choose to be a generalist or a specialist, a clinician...

September 14, 2017

At its inaugural meeting today, Doctors of BC's Representative Assembly elected a new Board from candidates nominated by the general membership. The Board Directors-at-Large are:

General Practitioners Dr Jeff Dresselhuis Dr Eugene Leduc Dr Lawrence Welsh Specialists  Dr Barb Blumenauer...
July 6, 2017

Doctors of BC is changing. After two years of engaging with members to get your input, we will have a dual-structure governance model this September which includes a new Representative Assembly (RA). The RA is designed to bring both balance and diversity to the running of our organization, and...