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Supporting Community-based Specialists

Learn more about supporting community-based specialists:

Access supports

The SSC is engaging with community-based specialists without hospital or health authority privileges to understand your needs and better support you. A number of supports have been arranged to date.

Spoken Language Interpreting Services

Access on-demand interpretation services for patients in your community practice. Available at no cost to specialists and teams - 24/7 by telephone in about 240 languages

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UpToDate

Get clinical decision support online with access to the latest evidence, best practices
and clear guidance to complex questions. Available through a no-cost subscription.

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CareConnect

View electronic health information for patient encounters, lab results, diagnostic imaging and clinical documents. Secure access is available 24/7 to community based specialists.

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Physician Business Services 

Get customized support, resources, information, and expert advice to navigate the current operational needs of your practice. Available from Doctors of BC.

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Zoom for Healthcare

Get a Zoom for Healthcare license to deliver virtual care. Currently available for no cost.

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Physician Quality Improvement

We are working to improve how we engage community-based physicians with quality improvement training and supports.

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Community Physician Health and Safety Program

The program supports and enhances workplace health and safety for all physicians who work in the community along with their support staff.

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Background: Supporting Community-based Specialists 

  • 2019:  At the Specialists Symposium in 2019, SSC collected feedback on how it can better support all specialists in their work. Supporting community-based specialists without affiliation with hospitals and health authorities was identified as a need, resulting in SSC making it a key priority moving forward. 
     
  • 2020: Early in 2020, the Doctors of BC board with endorsement by the Representative Assembly, acknowledged the unique concerns of community-based specialists, and the need for SSC to increase support for this group.
     
  • 2021: To better understand the unique needs of community-based specialists without hospital privileges, SSC heard from about 30 community-based specialists representing 12 specialties from across the province. As part of five focus groups, these community-based specialists reflected on potential gaps and opportunities within SSC’s mandate and scope of work, and identified concrete and actionable priorities for SSC in these theme areas:
    • Theme 1:  CBS carry a tremendous “burden of business” significantly contributing to fatigue and burnout
    • Theme 2: CBS do not feel sufficiently connected to colleagues
    • Theme 3: Developing capabilities and training

Read more in the focus group report. 

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Donna Murphy-Burke, Portfolio Liaison: dmurphyburke@doctorsofbc.ca
Fariyal Rehmat, Senior Project Coordinator: frehmat@doctorsofbc.ca

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