173 NLMA Communique Volume 17, No. 1 (January February 1998)

• Main Author: Newfoundland Medical Association
• Other Authors: Collins, L.
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Newfoundland Medical Association 1998
• Subjects: Newfoundland Medical Association; Medicine > Newfoundland and Labrador; Medical Education; Medicine > Study and Teaching (Continuing); Physicians > Training of; Medical Personnel > Training of; Physicians > Newfoundland and Labrador; Health > Newfoundland and Labrador; Medicine > Practice > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newsletters; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/NMA_Newslel/id/4040

NLMA Communiqu, Volume 17, No. 1 (January/February 1998) What better place to hold a rural medicine conference -- 1997-98 Board of Directors -- NLMA Board of Directors 1997-98 -- Rapid communications most useful for negotiations / Bruce Squires -- Welcome to the NLMA -- Highlights: Board of Directors Meeting December 6 -- Nurse practitioner legislation -- Multi-Disciplinary Service and Teaching Unit Advisory Committee -- Nursing first assists -- Proposed midwifery program -- Payment Schedule Review -- ENT tariff review -- Proration levels On-site coverage for Waterford Hospital AMOs -- CME funding -- Dispensing of substitute brand-name drug regulations -- Prescriptions by fax -- Centre for Health Information -- Fees for special reports to Workers' Compensation -- PAIRN to pursue legal challenge to NAC rules -- NLMA Appointments -- January 31 -- Members will ratify any new agreement with government -- Disbursement of settlement from JMC dispute -- Nurse Practitioner Training Program -- Scope of practice regulations -- New fee codes for urology and radiology -- Voting status for student and resident board members -- Automated external defibrillators -- Sponsorship of trainees to medical association events -- Court challenge to NAC rules -- Psychiatry Association raises concerns about MCP audits -- Community Health/Human Resources and Employment integration project -- Referral to licensing authorities -- Access to Medical Care Project -- Legal opinion on facility fees -- Appointments -- Patients prescribe many treatments for the province's ailing medical system -- In Memoriam: Simpson, Dr. John, Pollock, Dr. Andrew Walter L. -- Dental services for adult indigent patients -- Challenging opportunity available for the right physician -- Topic announced for scholarship -- RRSPs for everyone / Robert E. Kavanagh -- An Introduction to the Humberwood Centre / Michelle House -- Bulletin Board Official organ of the Newfoundland Medical Association, published Sept. 1958-Nov. 1977. Changed name to Newfoundland Medical ...