Jack Taunton named to SFU Sports Hall of Fame

By dcc2012 | March 6, 2014

Dr. Jack Taunton, a Professor in the Department of Family Practice, has been named a 2014 Simon Fraser University Clan Athletics Hall of Fame inductee in the category of builder. Dr. Taunton began his sports medicine journey as a Kinesiology graduate student at SFU, finishing the program in 1983.  His link with the Clan remained strong following […]

The effect of homelessness on health care use

The effect of homelessness on health care use

By dcc2012 | December 11, 2013

Melissa Carr (Communications Coordinator, VFMP) Adrienne Cheung, Vancouver Fraser Medical Program Class of 2016, stands amid the hustle and bustle of St. Paul’s Hospital. She has just returned home from Toronto, after spending some time with her family. Cheung is waiting for Dr. Anita Palepu, a nationally renowned general internist. Dr. Palepu weaves her way […]

UBC Aboriginals Into Medicine Pre-Admissions Workshop comes to the Okanagan campus

UBC Aboriginals Into Medicine Pre-Admissions Workshop comes to the Okanagan campus

By dcc2012 | July 26, 2012

This year’s UBC Aboriginals Into Medicine Pre-Admissions Workshop was hosted by UBC’s Okanagan campus from July 11 – 13.

VFMP Student, Allison Nakanishi

Learning “…to provide culturally safe care”

By dcc2012 | May 16, 2012

“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 years earlier than non-Aboriginal women, the […]