Second Round of Offers Sent
The second round of offers has been sent! Congratulations to everyone receiving an offer. The deadline for this round is Wednesday, May 30, at 12:00 p.m., so the next round will be sent sometime after this date (the exact date and time is not yet determined). We will update the blog after the next round. […]
VFMP Appointment Announcements
General Dawn DeWitt, Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver-Fraser, and Associate Dean Undergraduate Medical Education – Started January 1, 2012 Heather Buckley (Family Medicine), Faculty Development Coordinator, VFMP – Started Jan 15, 2012 for a 3-year term Janette McMillan, Assistant Dean, Office of Student Affairs Sandra Lee, Career Planning Director, OSA Year 2 Esma Dilli (Neurology) – […]
UBC Clinical Skills Volunteer Patient Program
Lynn Mockler, BSN MA, UBC Faculty of Medicine Volunteer Patients are members of the general public who donate their time to assist first and second-year medical students in learning and practicing history-taking and hands-on physical exam skills. Over 350 volunteers take part in the Clinical Skills program at the VFMP site, ranging in age from […]
Year 2 Stem Cell Drive
Adam Pankalla, VFMP 2014 This year, UBC medical students founded the club “Medical Students for Stem Cell Networks” with the goal of organizing cheek swab drives and improving the Canadian stem cell donor registry. These registries are used to help find potential bone marrow donors for the 75% of patients who will be unable to […]
2012 Spring Gala: the legacy continues…
Simon Woo, VFMP 2012 18 years ago, Dr. Andrew Seal (colorectal surgeon, previous Dean of Student Affairs and proponent for arts in medicine), pioneered an event where the performing talents of medical students could be showcased and proceeds would be donated to a local charity. As years went by, the scale and quality of the […]
Ready, Set…Run for Rural Medicine
Riki Dayan, VFMP 2012 20% of British Columbians live in rural areas but only 10% of physicians work there. Adding to the problem is the decline in number of new medical graduates who choose to practice in rural areas. It is now common for communities formerly served by one or two resident physicians to see […]
VFMP Year 1 Students Lobby Federal Government to Support Rural Medicine Initiatives
Elisa Kharazi, VFMP 2015 In early February, I had the opportunity to represent UBC Medical Students at the annual CFMS Federal Lobby Day in Ottawa. Every year, medical students from Vancouver to St. John’s identify an issue that is pertinent to the quality of health care in Canada and gather on Parliament Hill to work […]
Learning “…to provide culturally safe care”: one VFMP student’s SSRP experience.
Melissa Carr, Communications Coordinator – VFMP “Since 2001, BC’s Aboriginal peoples experienced ‘worsening trends’…including increased rates of HIV/AIDS, use of prescription drugs, poor housing, low birth weights, and the number of children who live as governmental wards. Since 1992, Status-Indian men maintained the lowest life expectancy of any group in the province, dying almost 10 […]
Message From the Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver Fraser
I hope you are as excited as I am to read the inaugural newsletter for the Vancouver Fraser Medical Program (VFMP). Our hope is that this publication will serve as a means to keep students, faculty, staff and stakeholders informed and updated about our program and the impact it is having on the region. Last […]
Feature: Q & A with Dr. Dawn DeWitt, Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver Fraser Medical Program
Melissa Carr, Communications Coordinator – VFMP Dr. DeWitt began her appointment as the Regional Associate Dean for the Vancouver Fraser Medical Program in January of 2012. I sat down with her recently to talk about what brought her to Vancouver, what she thinks so far and what her goals will be for the coming year. […]