MD Scope archive

This archive will always contain links to one year of back issues of the MD Scope. For older issues, please contact the AMA web team at webmaster@albertadoctors.org.

2024

March 28

• Provide your input on working with WCB-Alberta
• AMA President-Elect 2024-25: Call for nominations
• Use your CME dollars! Deadline is March 31
• New MD Culture Shift: March issue
• MD Financial
  • Investing through 2024 and beyond with robust portfolios
• Community Connections

March 14

• Optmized Prescribing with Seniors: Medical management of BPSD
• Read two important lab updates: supply ordering and microbiology requisitions
• March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• Three new Enhanced Skills programs taking on their first residents in July 2025
• PFSP invites original physician poetry submissions
• Nominate a health hero for induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame!
• MD Financial
  • AMA members, pay the right amount of taxes
• Community Connections
  • Perceived distinctions between research, medical, clinical and surgical innovation and their impact on professional practice

February 29

• Wanted: Physician input on WCB-Alberta experiences
• Declare yourself "in" for panel management support funding
• FAST expands general surgery province-wide on February 26
• Thank a colleague! JPAC Shine On Gratitude Program.
• AMA seeks nominations for our highest awards
• MD Financial
  • Get a tailored investment plan
• Community Connections:
  • ADAPT study on follow-up care recruiting family physicians

February 15

• Good faith claims billing information session
• Updated fax number for Calgary zone urology referrals issue
• You're making a difference! Enhanced lipid reporting a success
• Taking additional training? Are you eligible for a $7,500 scholarship?
• Applications for the 2024 Student Sponsorship Program are now open!
• New: MD Culture Shift - February issue
• MD Financial
  • Tax changes for 2024
• Community Connections:
  • Alberta Health Technology Survey

January 25

• Share your voice to help government and the public understand the crisis in family care
•  AMA Strike Team: Improving comprehensive primary care
• FIB-4: New test in Alberta to risk stratify patients of developing liver fibrosis
• General surgery to join FAST province-wide
• Alberta's Pathways Hub - Feedback wanted
• Now available province-wide: Family medicine - Menopause symptom advice request reason for referral
• Election results: Meet your new zonal/regional RF delegates!
• Want to help celebrate medicine's achievements? Apply now!
• Applications now open for Health Technology Innovation Program
• MD Financial Management
  • Should I invest in a TFSA or leave excess funds in my corporation?
• Community Connections
  • Your input is needed on assessing FASD in Canada

January 11

• Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Part 2 - Emerging acute or decompensated heart failure
• Patients requesting Novavax vaccine?
• TD Insurance/AMA Medical Student Bursary: Application deadline extended to January 14
• Register today: Online session on physician wellness and mental illness
• Physicians needed to interview applicants for the U of A Doctor of Medicine Program
• Expressing our gratitude
• HQCA now publicly reporting hospital care measures
• 2023 EMR Survey - the results are in!
• Join the History of Medicine Committee: online applications now being accepted
• New MD Culture Shift January issue
• MD Financial Management
  • U.S. tax planning considerations for Canadian "snowbirds"

2023

December 14

• CMA leadership opportunities closing December 29: Apply ASAP!
• Register for CaRMS interview prep
• Provincial Pathways Unit is looking for help from primary care providers
• Vascular surgery joins FAST
• New: MD Culture Shift December issue
• MD Financial Management
  • Here are some financial FAQs for medical students
• Community Connections
  • Chiropractors want to understand your perception of chiropractic care in Alberta

November 30

• Vote now: 2023 RF delegate zonal/regional elections
• Lung cancer screening available to eligible Albertans
• New online clinical decision support tool for patients in Alberta
• New pediatric functional GI education website
• Apply for the TD Insurance AMA Medical Student Bursary
• MD Financial Management
  • Preparing for the family meeting: How to talk to your children about your estate plan
• Community Connections
  • U of C CME&PD 2023-2024 needs assessment
  • Participate in a study on pregnancy care referral

November 16

• Your issues, media coverage, AMA in the news
• Vote now: 2023 RF delegate zonal/regional elections
• Are you contemplating retirement or are already fully retired?
• Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Emerging acute or decompensated heart failure?
• Changes to lipid reporting and the LDL-C equation in Alberta
• Want to advise the health minister on health information management?
• Reminder: Community providers take action to receive results without delay
• New: MD Culture Shift November 2023 issue
• MD Financial Management
  • Preparing for the family meeting: How to talk to your children about your estate plan
• Community Connections
  • Research study: Medical education needs of myalgic encephalomyelitis
  • Disability and accessibility in First Nations health centre survey
  • Research study: COPD care
  • Talent Research Roundtable: Health technology in Alberta

October 26

• Help Alberta get immunized: Alberta's fall vaccine program has launched
• Call for applications: AMA Income Equity Initiative Dispute Resolution Committee
• 2023 Tarrant Scholarship: Congratulations Hailea Purcell and Tina Nash!
• Turning lost minutes into patient care: the Health Care Unburdened Grant program
• Does your President's Letter come from a former president?
• MD Financial Management
  • Why it's ok to delegate your financial responsibilities
• Community Connections
  • Seeking physicians to discuss pregnancy and reproductive services for women with disabilities
  • CanMeds open call for public consultation on physician training and practice
  • Research study: Culture and positive regard

October 12

• Local doctors, local issues town hall meetings begin October 16
• Call for nominations: Zonal/Regional RF delegates
• Apply today: AMA Informatics Committee
• Alberta's Pathway Hub now live
• Follow these steps to ensure you get lab, specimen and imaging results
• Alberta Medical Association/TD Insurance Stabilization Fund
• Presidential ghosts in your inbox?
• October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• New: MD Culture Shift October 2023 issue
• MD Financial Management
  • Practice management team: Assemble!
• Community Connections
  • Are you interested in shared care planning with complex patients?

September 28

• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
• 2023-24 AMA membership: United for the health of the profession
• AMA staff announcements: Service milestones and retirement
• Family physicians needed for Caregiver-Centered Care: Physician Education Advisory
• Apply for leadership opportunities with the CMA
• MD Financial Management
  • Meet Dr. Franco Rizzuti, AHS medical health officer and member of the MD Physician Council
• Community Connections
  • Call for Abstracts - Pediatric Academic Societies

September 14

• Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Nocturia
• Giving Alberta infants the best start to life possible
• Meet this year's recipients of TD Insurance AMA Scholarships
• New resource guide for physicians for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
• Congratulations to AMA Executive Director Mike Gormley on his retirement!
• New: MD Culture Shift Issue #24
• MD Financial Management
  • Should I invest in a TFSA or leave excess funds in my corporation?
• Community Connections
  • Focus on Caregivers: Active wellness for Calgarians under age 65 with dementia

August 31

• AMA committee openings closing soon: Apply online ASAP!
• AMA reps needed for Alberta Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Programs’ Advisory Committee
• CMA Awards: Nominate in one-step
• MD Financial Management
  • Investing as a physician: a primer
• Community Connections
  • COVID-19 related Moral Injury in Health Care Workers

August 17

• Notice of elections and changes to AMA Bylaws
• Members needed for several important committees. Apply online today!
• Register for town hall Connect Care conversation with Alberta physicians
• Do you have an up-to-date Privacy Impact Assessment? Time-limited offer.
• Thinking of a +1 residency in 2024-25?
• CMA Awards: Submit a one-step nomination today!
• Curl with colleagues this winter
• MD Financial Management
  • Bank of Canada: Another 0.25% hike, target overnight interest rate now 5.0%
• Community Connections
  • Level 2 Advanced Caregiver-Centered Care Education – all six domain modules now online

July 27

• Don't miss out! Claim up to $2,200 in CME reimbursement before July 31.
• Members needed for important committees. Apply online today!
• MD Financial Management
  • Canadians are living longer. How does that impact my retirement savings?
• Community Connections
  • Is Alberta's surgical referral system working for your and your patients?

July 13

• Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Constipation in the elderly
• Important committees: Members needed. Apply online today!
• Are you an Edmonton and area physician? Two special events to celebrate you!
• New MD Culture Shift Issue #23
• MD Financial Management
  • A guide to TFSA stock trading rules
• Community Connections
  • Is Alberta's surgical referral system working for your and your patients?

June 29

• A step toward anti-racism and anti-discrimination
• Medical students receive a boost from AMA's ADIUM Insurance!
• Lung cancer screening program expanding
• Want to help celebrate medicine's achievements?
• MD Financial Management
  • Medicus Pension Plan: Canada's first multi-employer pension plan for physicians has launched
• Community Connections
  • Educational needs assessment of Canadian health care professionals on myalgic encephalomyelitis
  • National survey of health care professionals' responses on domestic sex trafficking

June 15

• Claim your 2023 Continuing Medical Education allotments by July 31
• Connect Care surveys: Update from AHS and AMA
•  AMA Committee on Achievement Awards: Online applications now being accepted
• New MD Culture Shift Issue #22
• MD Financial Management
  • How to use income splitting to keep more of your money
• Community Connections
  • Educational needs assessment of Canadian health care professionals on myalgic encephalomyelitis
  • National survey of health care professionals' responses on domestic sex trafficking

May 25

• Connect Care lab results: please use provider and submitter IDs on all requisitions
• ABCs of Blended Capitation
• Celebrate Rural Health Week from May 29 to June 2
• Interested in assisting the AMA Board with the financial oversight of the association?
• AMA mourns passing of past president, Dr. Christopher Varvis
• MD Financial Management
  • Retirement timeline for physicians: How to prepare for a comfortable retirement

May 11

• Recognizing physicians in politics
• Optimizing Prescribing with Seniors: Focus on Parkinson's disease - Part 2
• Say thanks to a colleague using the JPAC Shine On Gratitude Program
• Your AMA Section: Three-question survey
• Apply for available positions on the AMA-AH ARP Working Group
• New MD Culture Shift Issue #21
• MD Financial Management
  • Your investment strategy, transformed
• Community Connections
  • Are you a female physician in Canada?

April 27

• Dr. Shelley Duggan is AMA's 2023-24 President-Elect
• Join the PFSP as an assessment physician!
• UAlberta Mental Health Monologues: a memorable night for all involved
• Reminder: AMA committee openings: Online applications now being accepted
• Taking tuition down a notch: $110,500 awarded in medical student bursaries!
• MD Financial Management
  • Financial literacy podcast: Physians and debt
• Community Connections
  • Do you prescribe antibiotics? Want to know more about antimicrobial resistance? Sign up for a CPSA focus group!

April 13

• How to prepare for Connect Care launch 6
• Reminder: Call for nominations: AMA President-Elect 2023-24
• Whom do you honour?
• AMA committee openings: Online applications now being accepted
• New MD Culture Shift Issue #20
• MD Financial Management
  • Here's what you need to know about the Silicon Valley Bank situation
• Community Connections
  • Research project: The views of internationally educated health care professionals in Canada on vaccinations

March 30

• CII-CPAR: Improving patient care with virtually no changes to daily workflow
• AMA President-Elect 2023-24: Call for nominations
• AMA committee openings: Online applications now being accepted
• Canada's national nature prescription program, PaRX, celebrates one year in Alberta
• Quick tips for privacy breaches
• WCB updates
  • Electronic reporting weekend interruption
  • Coming soon to myWCB: two-step verification
• MD Financial Management
  • Financial planning strategies for incorporated physicians
• Community Connections
  • Is Alberta's surgical referral system working for you and your patients? 

March 17

• Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Orthostatic hypotension
• Diagnostic imaging reports available online for patients through My Personal Records
• eReferral improvements implemented February 23
• AHS newborn screening program has a new name
• AMA Section of Pediatrics grants: Improving care through research and innovation
• Call for applications: History of medicine scholarship and project grant 
• New rate increases for auto insurance paused until December 31
• New MD Culture Shift Issue #19 
• MD Financial Management
  • Tax changes for 2023
• Community Connections
  • Do you want to share your thoughts and co-design tools for cancer diagnosis?
  • Navigating children's best interests in child psychiatric inpatient settings during the height of the COVID pandemic 
  • Free counselling services to families with immigrant and refugee experience, and their children