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Street Soccer, health and wellness: a Summer Student Research Project with positive impact.
Street Soccer is effective in helping people affected by homelessness in Vancouver and provides opportunity for medical trainees to work with this population in a non-clinical setting. A Q & A with Sari Rabar (VFMP) about her experience with this exciting SSRP, which for her, has become much, much more. Please briefly describe SSR Project […]
VFMP rural rotation experience: “…it’s hard to believe that in British Columbia, individuals live in such isolation and travel such long distances to obtain their basic necessities.”
Tara Dawn, VFMP 2014 For the month of July, I was privileged to complete my rural rotation in Vanderhoof. Having never travelled north of my native Okanagan valley, I enjoyed exploring the neighboring towns and scenery in the Nechako Valley. Yet, my interest peaked when conversation turned to the First Nation communities in the surrounding […]
Message from the Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver Fraser
Now that we have gotten through the hustle and bustle of the first few months of the school year, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you back for another exciting academic year. I have been in my role as Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver Fraser for 9 months now, and I have to […]
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 […]