ATCMA of BC
404-999 Canada Place V6C 3E2 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Thank you Minister Kang and your fellow MLAs for a positive and productive discussion today. We are grateful for your ongoing support of the TCM and Acupuncture community in BC!

Attention acupuncturists with an ICBC vendor number! The ICBC Health Care Provider Portal is launching on March 7. That day, ICBC will send you an email containing a PIN to use to login. If you need help using the new system, including the switch from Extension Requests to Treatment Plans, please refer to the Acupuncturist provider page on the ICBC website: ... https://www.icbc.com///providers/Pages/Acupuncturists.aspx ATCMA members, if your question is not answered by the information on the ICBC website, let us know and we will reach out to our ICBC Business Process Advisor for help.

Have your say on the PCE Chinese exam! The CTCMA will be sending out a survey to all registrants soon, so be sure to participate when you receive it. https://www.ctcma.bc.ca//2021-02-18-survey-regarding-pce-/

Dear Members, Health Canada has created a questionnaire about Moxa Product, if you are interested in participating in this consultation, please fill in the form https://atcma.org//Stakeholder_Questionnaire_on_Moxa_Produ and send it to [email protected] by March 3, 2021. Your participation is greatly appreciated. ... Health Canada https://atcma.org//Stakeholder_Questionnaire_on_Moxa_Produ [email protected]

Members! If you have still NOT received your board election voting like from Simply Voting, or if you are NOT receiving email newsletters from us, please PM the ATCMA page to let us know. We’re looking into each individual case and will contact those members affected individually to make sure we have everything we need to sort this out.

Pan Can exam results are starting to come in!! Check the CTCMA portal if you wrote this past Oct! We’re rooting for you!! !!

Hello members, By now you should have received an email from the ATCMA administration that clarifies some misinformation about the ATCMA's work, priorities and focus that has been shared over the last week as a result of board election campaigns. PLEASE NOTE: this is meant to clarify misinformation as we want members to vote based on facts, not hearsay. It is in no way a sign of support for or against any candidate running for the Board. The Executive Director and Office ...Administrators have received numerous calls, emails and messages from members who are concerned by messages they have received by email or viewed on social media, so today's email is meant to clear up any unsubstantiated information and misconceptions that are floating around. The ATCMA aims to be inclusive, and we welcome all members to voice their opinions and share their concerns, but we encourage everyone to do this constructively. Please reach out to the administration directly if you have any questions or concerns.

Good news on CEUs! Registrants who are due to report CE hours by April 2021 this affects you the most. The CTCMA QA Committee has published an update on its requirements for Continuing Competency Program’s Category A (Direct Participatory, Formal Programs). ... Registrants are required to complete 6 (of 50 total) CEU hours in-person, but in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now allowed to fulfill these 6 hours through online, live interactive workshops, seminars or training for which attendance is taken and monitored. This can be counted retroactively to CE activities from October 1, 2020. That means any ATCMA online seminars that you have taken live from that date on will count! The 6 required hours can now be fulfilled in several new ways, including one new way that we are pleased to highlight: Self-Study of the College’s Covid-19 Clinical Resource Package (for up to 4 hours). This new document was created in collaboration with the ATCMA! You are already doing the work of implementing health and safety measures in the clinic get credit for it through this self-study exercise and quiz. It will also be very handy in clinical use throughout the pandemic as it contains links to all of the relevant authorities that are informing us and making decisions on COVID-19 policy. This is just a snippet of the announcement. Be sure to read the full document and access links here: https://ctcma.bc.ca/quality-practice/continuing-education/

Hello members! All members in good standing should have received an email with the instructions and link for voting in the BOD election. If you did NOT receive an email from us on Saturday morning, please: - Check your spam/junk folder... - Make sure [email protected] is added to your safe senders list - Make sure your ATCMA member account contains a current, active email address - Contact the ATCMA office if our message is not in your spam/junk folder ([email protected], Tel: 604-428-6226) See more

Hello members! Due to the high volume of board nomination forms we received over the weekend and yesterday, we are postponing the start date for our elections by a few days. We need time to verify all of the candidates’ details. We will adjust the end-date for the election period accordingly, so don’t worry, you will still have two months to cast your ballot. We'll update you again when we have firmed up the date for the start of voting (it will be within the next few day...s) Thanks for your understanding!