Take 2 Newsletter

The EK Division’s Take 2 newsletter is a monthly newsletter for family physicians and other regional primary care providers. Typically delivered once a month, the Take 2 highlights important program updates, physician opportunities, funding initiatives, events, regional happenings, and news. EK Division physician members are automatically added to the Take 2 newsletter distribution list.  
 

EK CPD Newsletters

The EK CPD newsletter is distributed monthly and features content around professional development and education, training, and personal support and wellness opportunities for physicians available locally, regionally and provincially. Physician members are automatically added to the EK CPD newsletter distribution list. 

Annual Reports

The East Kootenay Division of Family Practice Annual Reports are available online to view or download.
 

Media Releases & EK Division News

• Jo Ann Lamb Retires After 50 Years in Healthcare
   
• Discovering Community and Purpose in Rural Medicine
   
• Dr.Lori Wik: Leading the Way in Compassionate Care
   
• Greg Andreas and the Curiosity, Frailty & Palliative Care project
   
• EK MOAs play integral role in running efficient family practice clinics
   
• Encompass Pregnancy Care Cranbrook welcomes local midwives to the pregnancy care team
   
• Read more on Planetary Health in Primary Care, authored by East Kootenay family physician Dr. Ilona Hale and proudly supported by the East Kootenay Division of Family Practice and Cascades Canada, a government of Canada initiative. Learn more.
   
• New Provider & Patient Roadmap resource for transgender, gender-diverse, intersex and two-spirited people in the East Kootenay. The Patient Roadmap identifies gender affirming care services and resources that exist both in the region and online, and aims to help transgender, gender-diverse, intersex and two-spirited people find and navigate their care. The Patient Roadmap is now available on the Pathways Community Service Directory.
   
• Regional opportunities to teach and inspire future doctors are increasing and may benefit your clinic and community. PRABC and UBC SMP teaching opportunities.pdf
   
• Stories of Environmentally Sustainable Practices in Primary Care
   
• Cranbrook Urgent & Primary Care Centre marks one year anniversary (interiorhealth.ca)
   
• Pregnancy Care Clinic opens in Cranbrook | Columbia Valley, Cranbrook, East Kootenay, Elk Valley, Kimberley, Ktunaxa Nation (e-know.ca)