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The College will be closed on Friday, April 2, 2021 and Monday, April 5, 2021. Business will resume at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.

On March 17, 2021, the federal government passed Bill C-7, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying). This new legislation expands eligibility for medical assistance in dying (MAiD), modifies existing safeguards, adds new safeguards, introduces a waiver of final consent to

Dr. Bonnie Henry has updated the order Regulated and Unregulated Health Professionals SARS-CoV-2 Immunization to allow physicians who have been retired from practice for more than three years and eligible international medical graduates to provide COVID-19 immunizations under supervision of a health

The College is currently in the process of updating a practice standard that outlines the rules physicians and surgeons must follow when providing virtual medical care to patients in BC. To help guide the revisions to the practice standard, the College is interested in learning more about the public

British Columbians are invited to contribute their knowledge, skills and expertise by sitting as members of College committees. All College committees are comprised of registrant and public members. Committee members are integral to ensuring the College delivers on its mandate to protect the public

If you plan to apply for registration and licensure to practise independently in British Columbia during the spring and summer of 2021, please note that the following timelines are in place due to the high volume of applications expected from graduating residents. As a 2021 graduating resident, if

After a comprehensive review process, which involved consultations, outreach to multiple stakeholder groups, and review by the Patient Relations, Practice Standards and Ethics Committee, a revised practice standard and professional guideline have been published to the College website: • Photographic

The Injection of Botulinum Toxin, Dermal Fillers and Venous Sclerotherapy practice standard has been revised to acknowledge that, following a registrant’s assessment of the patient, any nurse holding practising registration with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives may perform an injection given

Dr. David Eric Narvas has been transferred from the Full – Family class of registration to the Conditional – Disciplined class of registration. The full notification is available here.

A trauma-informed care reading list has been curated by College librarians and can be found here or on the reading lists page.

The College will be closed on Monday, February 15 for Family Day. We will resume business at 8:30 am on Tuesday, February 16.

January/February issue now available. Read it here.