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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

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

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…

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

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

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 […]