2025 Divisions Dispatch

April 23, 2025 Division Dispatch

  • BC government eliminates routine sick notes
  • Walk with your Doc: As easy as a walk in the park
  • Doctors of BC Member Survey 
  • Doctors of BC member engagement: HPOA bylaw consultation
  • 2025 JCC Conference Call for Abstracts now open
  • JCC Meeting Summaries
  • Increases to the LFP Payment Model 
  • CBT Skills for Insomnia Group helps patients sleep better
  • Free access to AI scribes available
  • Join the fight against cancer with team-based care
  • Clinical trial seeks participants experiencing Long COVID 
  • Canadian MAiD Curriculum sessions in Vancouver
  • Urgent and Primary Care: Connect 2025 Conference 
  • Webinar: Lung Cancer Screening in BC: Eligibility, Diagnosis, and Follow-Up Care
  • Ask The Expert: New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
  • Allyship and Upstanding: Interrupting Indigenous-Specific Racism in Health Care
  • New Pathways Search Lunch & Learn webinar
  • Virtual learning day offers best practices in substance use care
  • Reducing Ovarian Cancer Risk: Discussing Opportunistic Salpingectomy with Patients in Primary Care
  • Supporting People Who Use Methamphetamines
  • 2025 BC Rural Health Conference
  • Keeping It Rural Conference

April 9, 2025 Divisions Dispatch

  • Dr Kevin Martin appointed to FPSC
  • Physician Leadership Scholarship Program accepting applications 
  • Walk with your Doc registration is open 
  • Apply now: Health Quality BC 2025 Clinical Fellowship
  • 2025 CLFP Payment claim form due April 18 
  • Fee-for-service: New family conference fee 
  • Survey underway on fee-for-service codes 
  • New accredited training on ADHD and substance use available 
  • Journal of Family Practice Oncology 
  • Bright Spots: Managing patients with heart failure 
  • Physician-led program offers sustainable lifestyle changes
  • Mind Space: Skill of the Month 
  • BC Cancer Primary Care Program Clinical Resource Webpage 
  • Addiction Practice Pod: Season 5 streaming now 
  • Chronic Kidney Disease guideline open for external review
  • Critical Care BC Community Staff and Provider Post Critical Illness Survey—Deadline April 30 
  • Pathways Lunch and Learn  
  • Starting Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT) in Primary Care: A Primer  
  • Beyond the clinic: Estate planning strategies for physicians
  • Webcast: Localized Prostate Cancer Management and Surveillance
  • Canadian MAiD Curriculum sessions in Vancouver 
  • Urgent and Primary Care: Connect 2025 Conference 
  • Webinar: Lung Cancer Screening in BC: Eligibility, Diagnosis, and Follow-Up Care
  • Virtual learning day offers best practices in substance use care 
  • Webinar: Supporting People Who Use Methamphetamines 
  • 2025 BC Rural Health Conference
  • Keeping It Rural Conference 

March 26, 2025 Divisions Dispatch

  • Walk with your Doc registration now open!
  • Important changes for claiming FPSC network payments  
  • Reminder to submit your 2025 CLFP Payment claim form  
  • PHP-JCC Peer Support Initiative seeking applications for 2025 cohort  
  • Grants worth $10,000 available to rural physicians
  • Funding available for Rural and Remote Medicine Course and Conference 
  • BCFD report celebrates LFP Payment Model 
  • Re-enrolment required for billing under LFP Payment model 
  • PAS payments: Complete your PAS requirements by March 31, 2025
  • Bright Spots in collaborative partnerships
  • Critical Care BC Community Staff and Provider Post Critical Illness Survey – Deadline April 30
  • Call for Presenters: Pediatric Primary Care Webinar Series
  • Call for abstracts: Canadian Conference on Physician Health in Vancouver
  • Participants sought for research study
  • Penticton Indian Band - Historical Perspectives and a New Path Forward
  • First Nations community-based experiential learning sessions 
  • Pacific Pain Forum 2025: Less than one month to go!
  • Beyond the clinic: Estate planning strategies for physicians
  • Webcast: Localized Prostate Cancer Management and Surveillance
  • Early bird rates end soon for the Urgent and Primary Care: Connect 2025 Conference 
  • Webinar: Lung Cancer Screening in BC: Eligibility, Diagnosis, and Follow-Up Care
  • Virtual learning day highlights BC Substance Use Care Update
  • Register now for 2025 Rural Health Conference
  • Registration open for Keeping It Rural Conference 

March 12, 2025 Divisions Dispatch

  • New fee-for-service long-term fee codes 
  • New surgical assistance fee for service created by BCFD and Section of Surgical Assistants
  • Protecting Patient Information Virtually
  • EMR Skill Building: EMR Security Basics
  • Doctors of BC’s 125th Anniversary: Celebrating Dr Ethlyn Trapp and women in medicine
  • Walk with your Doc registration now open
  • Team-based approach to improving care for patients with heart failure in Northern BC
  • Upcoming First Nations community-based experiential learning sessions 
  • Funding available for Rural and Remote Medicine Course and Conference 
  • Clinical Services contracts available for physicians in long-term care
  • March is Pharmacy Appreciation Month
  • General Practitioner in Oncology (GPO) Information Session
  • Critical Care BC Community Staff and Provider Post Critical Illness Survey – April 30 deadline
  • Call for abstracts: Canadian Conference on Physician Health in Vancouver
  • Mind Space: Skill of the Month
  • Mind Space: THINK
  • Webcast: Localized Prostate Cancer Management and Surveillance
  • Call for Presenters: Pediatric Primary Care Webinar Series
  • BC Cancer's FPON Education Day for Primary Care - Gastrointestinal Cancers
  • Urgent and Primary Care: Connect 2025
  • Registration open for Keeping It Rural Conference 
  • Webinar: Lung Cancer Screening in BC: Eligibility, Diagnosis, and Follow-Up Care
  • Webinar: Providing culturally safe care for Inuit patients 
  • Sextortion: Managing and Supporting Children and Youth Affected by Sexual Exploitation

February 26, 2025 Divisions Dispatch

  • Eligibility for the Digital Referrals & Orders Program
  • EMR Skill Building: EMR Security Basics
  • New fee: Management of Stillbirth
  • Re-enrolment required for billing under LFP Payment Model
  • Upcoming Changes to FPSC Network payments (14010 and 14086) 
  • Payments for physicians joining the PAS after March 31, 2024
  • Webinar recording on AI scribe technology available
  • Funding available for Rural and Remote Medicine Course and Conference
  • Free program supports workplace health and safety 
  • Childhood Vaccine Misinformation: Keep Your Child Safe
  • Urgent and Primary Care: Connect 2025
  • Earlybird registration open for Keeping It Rural Conference
  • Pathways Lunch & Learn
  • Lung cancer screening in BC webinar: Eligibility, diagnosis, and follow-up care
  • Post-Breast Cancer Treatment Follow-up Care 
  • Webinar: Providing culturally safe care for Inuit patients 
  • Much Ado About Induction
  • Sextortion: Managing and Supporting Children and Youth Affected by Sexual Exploitation

February 12, 2025 Divisions Dispatch

  • Updated information for UpToDate access on Divisions.ca
  • EMR Skill Building: EMR Security Basics
  • Team-based perinatal care snapshots
  • Funding available for Rural and Remote Medicine Course and Conference 
  • Tips for successful billing with WorkSafeBC
  • APPLAUD Action Series
  • Provincial program offers resources to improve health and safety in the workplace
  • Mind Space Skill of the Month: Grounding Skill 5-4-3-2-1
  • Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee (GPAC)
  • Critical care and internal medicine support for rural providers
  • New referral process for BC Children’s Outpatient Psychiatry Department 
  • Post-breast cancer treatment follow-up care 
  • Upcoming webinar: Empowering clinics: Building a health and safety program 
  • Implementing AI in practice
  • Webinar: Providing culturally safe care for Inuit patients 
  • Much Ado About Induction
  • Sextortion: Managing and Supporting Children and Youth Affected by Sexual Exploitation
  • Managing and supporting children and youth: BC Cancer's FPON Education Day for Primary Care - Gastrointestinal Cancers
  • Caring for patients with thyroid cancer

January 29, 2025 Divisions Dispatch

  • Congratulations to the Doctors of BC's 2024 award winners
  • Engagement opportunity: Impact of notifications for laboratory requisitions
  • LFP Payment Model updates
  • Post-event report: Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Community of Practice annual gathering
  • Online tool supports patients with long COVID
  • New Enhanced Care Pathways
  • APPLAUD Action Series returns
  • Compass ADHD Toolkit offers management strategies
  • Cancer Screening Invitations: Cervix Screening
  • Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee (GPAC) 
  • Empowering clinics: Building a health and safety program
  • Caring for patients with thyroid cancer 
  • Implementing AI scribe in practice
  • Upcoming webinar: The power of self-awareness
  • DTO offers sessions on Intrahealth Profile EMR
  • Morning tips with Pathways physician lead

January 16, 2025 Divisions Dispatch

  • Implementing AI scribe in practice
  • Fee updates
  • Shared Care’s CBT Skills Training Spread Initiative wins Health Quality BC runner-up award 
  • Upcoming First Nations experiential learning sessions
  • Shared Care Committee selects 15 EOIs
  • Health Quality Awards winners announced 
  • Pathways and Digital Referrals & Orders collaborate to enhance care provider services 
  • Participate in eReferral creation
  • Community Physician Health and Safety Program offers resources for a safer workplace 
  • Mind Space Skill of the Month: One Breath Skill
  • Empower your leadership with data-driven decisions
  • Explore the latest in HDC Discover with our engagement specialist
  • Upcoming webinar: The power of self-awareness
  • Webinar: Managing the difficult employee 
  • Caring for patients with thyroid cancer
  • Invitation to participate in a research study on the Diffusion of Uptake of Evidence-based Practices within networks of care providers
  • Child and Youth Eating Disorder Management lunch-and-learn