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2020 UBC Health scholarships and awards open for submissions

October 16, 2020 If you know an outstanding individual or team who demonstrates exceptional leadership in interprofessional collaboration, health education, or research, nominate them for a UBC Health scholarship or award! The 2020 UBC Health scholarships and awards competition is now open. They...

Awards + Scholarships

New appointments at UBC Health

October 14, 2020 UBC Health is pleased to announce the appointment of Donna Drynan as the new Director of Education and Victoria Wood as the new Assistant Director, Strategic Initiatives. Donna Drynan Professor Donna Drynan will begin her new role as Director of Education at UBC Health, starting...

UBC Health announces $100,000 in new funding for innovative health-related research

UBC Health has announced $100,000 in new research funding to foster cross-faculty collaboration in health research at the university. “Interest in health research touches nearly every faculty at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan,” said Dermot Kelleher, Vice-President, Health. “The importance of...

Awards + Scholarships

UBC Health’s interprofessional learning goes online

What does it mean to collaboratively engage in ethical discussions, provide culturally safe care, or cultivate resilience as a student and future healthcare professional? These are just some of the questions that students in 15 of UBC’s health professional programs explore in an interprofessional...

Collaborative Health Education

UBC Health Awards celebrate cutting-edge work in interprofessional collaboration

What do physical therapy, dentistry, lived experience, and social justice have in common? They’re some of the areas where UBC students and faculty as well as community members have embraced interprofessional collaboration and earned a UBC Health Award for their efforts. Every year, UBC Health...

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The Rural Education Access Coordination Hub will coordinate more placements for health profession students

UBC Health project addresses health care provider shortages in rural BC

Chronic shortages of doctors and nurses. Long waitlists for specialty rehabilitation care like speech-language pathologists and occupational and physical therapists. Higher rates of complex mental health disorders, obesity, traumatic injuries, and self-reported disability. That’s the healthcare...

Collaborative Health Education

UBC Health tackles opioid overdose crisis with new joint hire

Amid a rising death toll in opioid-related overdoses and an ongoing public health emergency in British Columbia, the Office of the Vice-President Health has teamed up with the BC Centre on Substance Use to improve substance use and addiction training for health profession students at UBC. “As the...

Collaborative Health Education
Practice + External Partnerships

Study published in Academic Medicine on the Outcomes of the Health Mentors Program

A paper about the long-term impact of the Health Mentors Program has been published ahead of print in the journal Academic Medicine and is freely available. Data were collected in follow up interviews with 18 medical residents 3-4 years after they completed the program. Professional identity was...

Patient + Community Partnerships

UBC Health Mentors 'Virtual' Symposium 2020

The 2019-20 UBC Interprofessional Health Mentors Program is proud to present our Virtual Symposium! The Symposium is the highlight of the yearlong UBC Health Mentors Program, a unique experiential activity in which interdisciplinary teams of healthcare students learn together with and from a health...

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Patient + Community Partnerships

Congratulations to Nolan Chem

UBC Health wishes to congratulate Nolan Chem. He is recognized as an exemplary leader and innovator, by the Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) for his academic excellence and his work with the Community Health Initiative by University Students (CHIUS) and the Vancouver Native Health (...

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