Dr. William Ehman
MD, MCFP
Dr. William Ehman has practiced comprehensive family medicine in Nanaimo, B.C., in Nanaimo since 1978. He taught the Newborn Resuscitation Program for many years and subsequently Fetal Health Surveillance (FHS) education programs. Currently he is a member of both departments of Family Practice and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
As a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice, UBC, he supports Family Practice residents Family Medicine learning. He is a consultant with Perinatal Services BC and has participated in many of their guidelines, educational conferences and programs.
Dr. Ehman is a member of the National FHS Committee and contributes to and updates the content of their education program and teaches their FHS instructor programs.
As a member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada he is past chair of the Maternity and Newborn Care Member Interest Group which supports and promotes Family Practice maternity care and the maternity care experience and competence of Family Practice residents in training throughout Canada.
With the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) he was the Family Physician representative on Council from 2008 to 2012. He was a member of the SOGC Guidelines Management and Oversight Committee which is responsible for the development, review and promotion of guidelines.
With the SOGC Advances in Labour and Risk Management (ALARM) program he was a member of the ALARM Committee from 1999 until 2006, serving as Co-Chair from 2002 to 2005. Since then he has taught the ALARM program and its instructor course throughout Canada.
He was a member of the original Managing Obstetrical Risk Efficiently (MOREOB) development group in 2001 and has facilitated the program’s implementation and maintenance in Canada and the USA. A past member of the SOGC Obstetric Content Committee from 2006 he was responsible for updating the ALARM and MOREOB educational content for the chapters on Fetal Surveillance in labour and Group B Streptococcus in labour.
With the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) he has participated in developing content for both the MCC Evaluating Exam, the MCC Practice Exam and contributes to marking of several of its exams.