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2021 competition opens for UBC Health awards and scholarships

The Office of the Vice-President, Health is pleased to announce that the competition for the 2021 UBC Health Awards and Scholarships is now open. These awards and scholarships recognize the academic and research excellence of faculty and students from various health disciplines at UBC as well as...

  • Awards + Scholarships

2021 John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship Award open for nominations

Every year through its awards and scholarships, UBC Health recognizes the academic and research excellence of students and faculty from various health disciplines at UBC as well as the achievements of health educators, professionals, and community partners across BC. One of those awards is the John...

  • Awards + Scholarships

Launching the TBC@UBC Network to advance team-based care

A new TBC @ UBC Network has launched to support the team-based primary healthcare transformation in BC with education, research, evaluation, and knowledge translation. Supported by UBC Health, the network will build on previous work at UBC to advance team-based care (TBC) by engaging health...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Health Systems
  • Partnerships

Health After 2020 program brings together researchers around this inflection point in society

The new Health After 2020 program, recently launched by UBC Health, supports researchers to engage in interdisciplinary and cross-institutional projects that support, challenge, and improve health producing systems. These collaborations are intended to respond to the broad effects of the COVID-19...

  • Interdisciplinary Research

New substance use and addiction lunch & learn series

UBC Health and the BC Centre on Substance Use have launched the new Substance Use and Addiction Lunch & Learn Series to provide foundational knowledge about substance use and addiction. This free webinar series is geared towards health program instructors and preceptors from any discipline who...

  • Collaborative Health Education
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Finding the patient’s voice

Health programs have access to a new resource for integrating patients into their curricula. UBC Health’s Patient & Community Partnership for Education (PCPE) has a database of more than 100 patients who are available for a range of learning activities. Educators can incorporate patients’ lived...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Partnerships
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Interprofessional placement project in rural BC enhances health student experience

An interprofessional health student placement project in northern BC has demonstrated what students value and desire in a rural placement. The project tested a learning model designed to improve students’ rural and remote placement experience, promote interprofessional collaboration, and provide...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Health Systems
  • Partnerships
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Videos of patients and caregivers illustrate vital topics for health education

Experiences of patients and caregivers during their health journeys have become a powerful tool for student learning at UBC. Developed by UBC Health’s Patient and Community Partnership for Education (PCPE), the Living Library is a collection of short video vignettes of patients and caregivers...

  • Collaborative Health Education
  • Partnerships
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Building a community of practice for substance use and addiction education

UBC Health and the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) have created a special interest group to support the development of a community of practice for those interested in substance use and addiction education at UBC. Sign up to the email list and receive updates, resources, and event notifications...

  • Collaborative Health Education
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In memoriam: Dr. James Frankish

The UBC Health community is mourning the passing of Dr. James (Jim) Frankish. Jim had a passion for and commitment to the promotion of public health. He had been Professor Emeritus at the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. He was an active mentor and educator...

  • Collaborative Health Education

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