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1. Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols, References for Medical Practitioners:
As late as Summer 2004, the two peer reviewed published Guidelines were not available free online and could cost nearly $100 to purchase and ship. FM-CFS Canada paid the US publisher Haworth Press to receive permission to share the two journal-form Protocols electronically with you, free, as below.
In late 2004 FM-CFS Canada met the College of Family Physicians of Canada and asked for a model for a short diagnostic and treatment overview. Such Overviews are now written, at our request, with the review of the expert panel. These inexpensive guides radically change the economics of sending information to doctors, and deliver the information in a concise format, as below.
Fibromyalgia Guidelines - The 2004 Canadian Concensus
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Guidelines - The 2003 Canadian Concensus
2. New Educational Materials
The goal is to create made-in-Canada, free, information for the relevant disciplines of Canadian health professionals. We're underway, with our thanks to the Canadian medical experts who responded to our call or volunteered.
3. Advancing medical school teaching time:
FM-CFS Canada met the Ottawa U. Medical School Dean, Vice-Dean, Associate Dean, and a departmental Dean, enroute to an agreement to double the teaching time for FM & CFS at the University of Ottawa medical school. We've provided educational resources in print and electronic form to the professor.
With the National ME/FM Action Network in a spring 2007 initiative, we distributed Clinical Overview guides for FM & ME/CFS to the remaining medical schools across Canada.
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