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2018
April 5
- AMA President-Elect: This is the call for nominations
- Are you interested in rural medicine?
- Swing a club in support of medical student bursaries!
- Nominate a colleague for an outstanding achievement
- Reminder: Online applications now being accepted for AMA committees
- WCB makes billing reconciliation easier
- AHS docs: Stay connected through AHS email and intranet
- Tax tips: a guide for physicians and physicians in training
- "Showcase" your products and services
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Reminders:
- Nominate a colleague for an AMA Achievement Award (Medal for Distinguished Service or Medal of Honor)
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
- Reminders:
March 22: Special issue
- AMA committee openings: Apply now!
March 15
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- New edition of Uninsured Services Guidelines to Billing now available!
- Are you a Covenant Health physician? Read this.
- CPSA seeks a community-based surgeon for IPAC Advisory Committee
- Alberta Doctors' Digest is going digital!
- AMA/WCB Advisory Committee wants you!
- CMA committee opening: Board Chair, Joule
- What physicians need to know about the 2018 federal budget
- It's time for a tune up! myWCB to undergo technical upgrade
- Are you thinking about retirement?
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Reminders:
- Nominate a colleague for an AMA Achievement Award (Medal for Distinguished Service or Medal of Honor)
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
- Reminders:
March 1
- Are BZDs the appropriate treatment for Ida, age 75?
- Alberta Doctors' Digest is going digital!
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Psssttt! PSSP coming soon to an Alberta Netcare portal near you
- Check out TOP's newest CPG: Medical Cannabinoids
- Have you registered for Safer Opioid Prescribing?
- Time for a second opinion
- How will AHS improve? 2017-20 Health Plan and Business Plan now available!
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Reminders:
- Nominate a colleague for an AMA Achievement Award (Medal for Distinguished Service or Medal of Honor)
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
- Reminders:
February 15
- The AMA proudly presents the RF Navigator™!
- Last chance! 2015 CME allotments forfeit March 31.
- Prep for CPAR by measuring your confirmation rate
- Get better rates and benefits with AMA AD&D insurance
- Thank you for your valuable feedback: Property and casualty insurance survey
- AHS podcast series focuses on quality and safety
- Cancer screening status reports now available on Netcare
- Register today for Effective Team Interactions workshop
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Reminders:
- Nominate a colleague for an AMA Achievement Award (Medal for Distinguished Service or Medal of Honor)
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
- Reminders:
February 1
- AMA member cards are now digital
- AMA and CMA help students prepare for match day!
- Read the latest financial news for physicians
- CZMSA Zone Advisory Forum wants you!
- Care to share your Bright Idea?
- Fellowship: Are you a leader in the health system?
- Safer Opioid Prescribing program begins in March
- Do you know the next "Doc of the Week"?
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Reminders:
- Nominate a colleague for the AMA Award for Compassionate Service
- Nominate a colleague for an AMA Achievement Award (Medal for Distinguished Service or Medal of Honor)
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
- Reminders:
January 18
- What's next for secure messaging?
- 10 tax tips for physicians
- Do you have a colleague that show tremendous compassion?
- Screening for life: Cancer screening at your fingertips
- For your information: GOA has improved its Employment Standards
- Committee opening: AHS wants you!
- CMA committee openings: Apply online today!
- Central Patient Attachment Registry: LPR starts soon!
- Doing the Right Thing... Right
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Reminders:
- Nominate a colleague for an AMA Achievement Award (Medal for Distinguished Service or Medal of Honor)
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
- Reminders:
January 4
- Cecelia has osteoporosis. How would you manage her care?
- Election results: Meet your new regional/zonal RF delegates
- Seeking nominations to recognize outstanding achievements
- Screening for Life: Cancer Screening at your fingertips
- Sudden sensorineural hearing loss: Will you recognize it when you see it?
- CMA committee openings: Apply online today!
- CPAR is launching this spring. Are you ready?
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Reminders:
- Nominate a colleague for the AMA Award for Compassionate Service
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
- Reminders:
2017
December 8
- Have you renewed your AMA membership?
- Can we share your "Bright Ideas?"
- You are represented! Learn about AMA advocacy and AHS clinical information sharing approach
- New Gamma Knife Centre opens at University of Alberta Hospital
- Nominate your colleague for the Compassionate Service award
- Apply for one of four $5,000 TDIMM/AMA scholarships!
- Register today for Safer Opioid Prescribing webinars and workshop
- Mock CaRMS interviews coming January
- Correction: Congratulations to AMA Past President Dr. Michael Giuffre!
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
November 16
- Have you renewed your AMA membership?
- Congratulations to AMA Past President Dr. Michael Giuffre!
- Are you prepared? Online CMA courses on Medical Assistance in Dying.
- Prescribing Mifegymiso? Please follow these steps for patient care.
- Read this patient screening update from ASaP
- Residents: Join us for an Info-Brew!
- CPAR rolls out in 2018!
- Take action on Radon this November
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds Sidebars:
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
November 2
- Have you renewed your AMA membership?
- Is there a role for antipsychotic use in dementia?
- Represent our Zone at RF: Call for Nominations
- CPSA standards: Your input needed
- Domestic violence education modules now available
- New AHS service eDelivers patient results directly to your EMR
- New AHS policy to help reduce infant injuries and SIDS
- Access new resources: Chronic Kidney Disease in primary care
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
October 19
- Call for nominations: 2017 RF delegate zonal/regional elections
- Time to renew your AMA membership
- PCN Board Competency Training: Registration now open!
- Congrats to TD Insurance Meloche Monnex/AMA Scholarship recipients!
- Presidential ghosts in your email?
- New Safer Opioid Prescribing program coming to Alberta
- Get extended health and dental coverage from the AMA
- Students and residents: We have funding for you!
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- 2017 AMA Representative Forum Reports and Resolutions now available
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
October 5
- How can I help my colleagues? Join the Physicians for Physicians network.
- New AMA committee openings: Apply online today!
- Time to renew your AMA membership
- Looking for a unique dining experience with your colleagues?
- Are you attending APCC? Here's an update!
- CPAR will roll out in 2018!
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- 2017 AMA Representative Forum Reports and Resolutions now available
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
September 21
- Time to renew your AMA membership
- READ THIS: AMA members and Equifax hack!
- Do you have plans October 5? We're hosting an Open House!
- Ready, set... CPAR is coming in 2018!
- Opioid safety: Help your patients be partners in their own safe care
- Use AHS Clinical Information Systems?
- Students and residents: We have funding for you!
- Get extended health and dental coverage from the AMA
- Alberta government seeking full-time Medical Consultant
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
September 7
- Doctor, I'm taking too many pills!
- Access new population level health data!
- Reduce your risk of cyberattacks
- Congrats! Three Alberta physicians awarded CCPE credential!
- Online suicide prevention tool for family physicians
- Don't pinch the broom: Discover curling with doctors!
- Here are tips for talking to kids about cannabis
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- AMA 2017 Fall RF/AGM observers registration
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
August 17
- Students and residents: We have funding for you!
- Get extended health and dental coverage from the AMA
- Apply today: AMA has two committee openings!
- CMA online and in-house course on MAiD
- What is your #MDNextStep?
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- AMA 2017 Fall RF/AGM observers registration
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
August 3
- Opioid dependency care – just a phone call away
- Rate AHS Laboratory Services
- Over $69,000 raised for medical student bursaries!
- We moved in together!
- Choosing Wisely patient engagement: You can help!
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- June 10, 2017 Special RF Resolutions now available online. Login required.
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
July 20
- Notice of Elections and changes to the AMA Constitution and Bylaws
- Seeking Physician Wellness #GOATs
- Have an idea on advancing patient collaborative care?
- Get help for your work-injured patients
- Legal recreational cannabis: Tell the government what you think!
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- June 10, 2017 Special RF Resolutions now available online. Login required.
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
July 6
- Is it an asymptomatic bacteriuria or a urinary tract infection?
- New obstetrical ultrasound reporting guidelines
- Apply today: There's a new AMA committee opening!
- WCB-Alberta takes further steps to minimize opioid harm
- Congratulations, Dr. Brad Bahler!
- New online suicide prevention tool for family physicians
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
June 15
- The results are in: PCN Governance Framework vote
- Where are the med students going? (ADIUM knows!)
- Primary Care Innovators: Save the date for APCC 2017
- It's stroke month: Educate your patients on healthy behaviors for healthy brains
- Prevent opioid abuse in work-injured patients
- Final year residents? Don't miss this information!
- New resource for care of elderly patients
- Important note for emergency department physicians
- Edmonton Prospects Baseball celebrates you!
- Attention PCNs: Provincial perinatal forms have moved to AHS
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
June 1
- Data security: Protect yourself now
- Have your say on the future of PCNs - VOTE today!
- New CPSA Advice to the Profession: Opioids and benzodiazepines
- The AMA Calgary office on the move!
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- President-Elect election now underway
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
May 19
- Election now underway! AMA President-Elect 2017-18
- Your voice is critical - VOTE today on the collective future of PCNs!
- Voting is your privilege!
- Meet your Alberta CMPA council candidates!
- Register today - North/South Golf Tournament
- Clarifying rules: Pre-op cataract medicals
- AMA Calgary office on the move!
- Medical students: We want to fund your electives!
- Register today - North/South Golf Tournament
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- AMA's 2017 Spring Representative Forum reports and resolutions for members now available
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
May 4
- John is 78. How would you manage his chronic pain?
- Deadline extended: Submit nominations for the AMA's highest honors
- New committee openings: Apply online by May 12
- Clarifying rules: Pre-op cataract medicals
- Medical students: We want to fund your electives
- Register today - North/South Golf Tournament
- AMA student sponsorships: The results are in!
- Legal marijuana: Know the workplace risks
- Bugs and Drugs® now free for all Albertans
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- AMA's 2017 Spring Representative Forum reports and resolutions for members now available
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
April 20
- Are you registered to vote on the proposed PCN Governance Framework?
- Swing a club in support of medical student bursaries and physician health programs!
- Canada’s first stroke ambulance is on the road!
- Treating patients exposed to oil and gas emissions?
- CMA online and in-house courses on MAiD
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- AMA's 2017 Spring Representative Forum reports and resolutions for members now available
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line
April 6
- AMA President-Elect - This is the call for nominations
- AMA committee openings: Online applications now being accepted
- PCN voting ballots: Are you on the list?
- Nominate a colleague who's made an outstanding achievement in health care
- Don't miss the Tarrant Scholarship deadline!
- Are you e-consulting yet?
- April 1, 2017 updates to the SOMB
- Do you have plans for Saturday?
- AMA announces 2017 bursary recipients
- AMA welcomes medical students to its first Advocacy Night
- Choosing Wisely Canada goes mobile!
- Top stories from our last issue
- MD Scope Classifieds
- Sidebars:
- AMA's 2017 Spring Representative Forum reports and resolutions for members now available
- Activate your dr2dr account
- Invite two patients today to albertapatients.ca
- AMA News for Docs - Sign up today!
- Get in touch with the ARP PMO
- Physicians and Family Support Program
- Practitioner Advocacy Assistance Line