BCMJ by Numbers
The BCMJ publishes two combined issues per year, in these months
What are January/February and July/August?
Our student writing prize is named after him
Who is J.H. MacDermot?
Medical students usually submit to this category
What is BCMD2B?
Subclinical: Gondoliers’ _______
What is footwear?
The image on the November issue cover
What is colorful weed gummies?
There are 8 of them
What are editorial board members?
This respected GP and renowned jokester was editor before Caitlin
Who is Dave Richardson?
Stories, history pieces, or narratives that don’t fit elsewhere in the BCMJ fall under this umbrella
What is Beyond Medicine?
Opioids have no role in patients awaiting total ________
What is knee arthroplasty
The format in which most readers prefer to read the BCMJ
The year the BCMJ started publishing as the BCMJ
What is 1959?
The name of our e-newsletter
BCMJ Headlines
Stories written about BC physicians’ lives outside of their practice are published in this category
What is BC Stories?
BC to fund _________: For whom and how?
What is in vitro fertilization?
The two paid (non peer-reviewed) columns published in almost every issue of the BCMJ
What are WSBC and BCCDC?
The year 2000 was the start of the new millennium, as well as this publishing component of the BCMJ
What is the BCMJ website?
Our cover designer, Jerry Wong, named his design company this (the opposite of the name could be Violent Pacifist)
What is Peaceful Warrior?
A submission lauding the accomplishments of a colleague could be published in this category
What is Physician Spotlight?
Explaining the gender pay gap: Lessons from _________
What is rheumatology?
The cost of each BCMJ issue to DoBC members—it’s the same cost now as in 1985
What is $2?
Although the BCMJ has been around for just over a century, it has had only six of these
What are editors?
The name of our prolific blog writer, whose blog posts are so good we sometimes publish them in print
Who is George Szasz?
Submit this when your opinion is too long-winded to be confined to the word limit of a letter
What is a Premise?
Cod intake masquerading as __________
What is arsenic toxicity?
The one month per year in which the Editorial Board reliably never meets
What is December?