Please scroll down for Chinese translation; 请下滑查看中文翻译 Dear Members,   We have heard from several members that they feel our previous message presented information that was biased in favour of the current ATMCA board of directors.  This was not our intention.  Our goal was to answer questions that we have received from members between Dec 5 and 12 and explain what the ATCMA staff is working on in relation to those questions.   There was a concern that our original communication highlighted board accomplishments, including those

Please scroll down for Chinese translation; 请下滑来查看中文翻译   Per Monday’s post, we attended a MOH meeting on modernizing the provincial health profession regulatory framework this morning. The session was somewhat useful, but there are a lot of unanswered  questions.  They basically highlighted key  changes that were made to the Committee proposal from the previous  iteration in Nov 2019 to the final recommendations made on Aug 27. Key takeaways from the session There was no firm answer on our Scope Modernization issue.  This is why we

Friendly reminder!  Please continue to gather signatures for the ATCMA’s petition calling on the BC government to direct the Ministry of Health to approve our long-overdue scope update.  The first round of almost 1,000 signatures was submitted to the Legislature in August – THANK YOU to everyone who worked hard to gather signatures!  There is still work to be done.  We need our scope updated BEFORE the amalgamation of regulatory colleges takes place, or we run the risk of carrying

July 31st, 2020 Dear Member, We’d like to drive business your way! Many front line healthcare workers are having difficulty finding Acupuncturists and TCM Practitioners or Doctors who will treat them because they may be working directly with or near COVID patients. It turns out that there is a specific BC Health Care Worker COVID-19 Exposures Risk Assessment Tool that HCW patients can use to self-assess, which helps clarify the conditions under which a HCW is assessed as “no risk” and therefore eligible

July 27th, 2020 Dear Member, BC Registered Acupuncturists, TCM practitioners and Doctors have been waiting for 22 years to have our Scope of Practice reviewed and updated to reflect our current clinical practices. The Ministry of Health has continually delayed approval of proposed amendments that would allow the CTCMA to update our Scope of Practice. 24 of the 26 regulated health professions in BC have now had their scope of practice modernised to line up with the Health Professions Act, yet we