Dr. Kyla Hildebrand
Dr. Kyla Hildebrand has been awarded with the 2020 Royal College AMS Donald Richards Wilson Award from The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC).
A clinical associate professor in the department of pediatrics, she is recognized for demonstrating excellence in integrating the CanMEDS Roles into six fellowship programs at UBC and at institutions across Canada. CanMEDS is a framework for improving patient care by enhancing physician training.
This award was established to honour and acknowledge the contribution of the late Dr. Donald R. Wilson, former president of the RCPSC, to medical education. It is given annually to a medical educator or an identified leader who has demonstrated excellence in integrating the CanMEDS Roles into a Royal College or other health-related training program.
“She takes a competency-based, CanMEDS-focused approach to assist learners who need further support,” says Dr. Ravi Sidhu, associate dean of medical education at UBC. “She has been a remediation supervisor in the department of pediatrics to assist learners in difficulty with the professionalism role.”
Dr. Hildebrand is also director of postgraduate medical education for pediatric clinical immunology and allergy, co-director of the Asthma Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital and a clinical investigator for the hospital’s research institute (Childhood Diseases cluster).
In the past two years, she has received numerous accolades from within and outside of UBC, including the 2017 UBC Faculty of Medicine Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching.
A version of this article originally appeared on the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s website.