Fall Graduation 2017
Explore how graduates from UBC’s Faculty of Medicine are making a difference in communities across British Columbia.
Everyday mindfulness
Master of occupational therapy students explore the impact of mindfulness as a therapeutic tool.
Future health professionals get crucial Indigenous culture training
UBC has launched a new Indigenous cultural safety learning experience for students in a wide range of health-related programs, including medicine and midwifery.
Indigenous medical graduates inspire future generations
This fall the UBC Faculty of Medicine is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Aboriginal MD Admissions program.
Victoria Cook honoured with the Kristin Sivertz Resident Leadership Award
Victoria Cook, a pediatric clinical immunology and allergy fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, has been selected as one of two recipients of the 2017 Kristin Sivertz Resident Leadership Award. This award was established to recognize residents who exemplify leadership within Canadian specialty education and encourage the development of future leaders in medicine. Dr. Cook […]
Back to School
Discover some of the bold education initiatives transforming how the Faculty is training the next generation of health care providers and researchers.
Mixed reality gives neuroanatomy lessons a boost
UBC’s Faculty of Medicine teams up with Microsoft to help students visualize the brain’s 3D structure.
BCCSU partners with UBC to launch new training program for opioid treatment prescribers
The new Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program will train health professionals in best practices for prescribing methadone and other opioid agonist treatments.
UBC medical resident first Canadian to receive RSNA Education Scholar Grant
Kathryn Darras, a recent graduate from the Faculty of Medicine’s Radiology Residency Program and current nuclear medicine resident, was awarded an Education Scholar Grant for over $100,000 CAD from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) – making her the first Canadian recipient. The two years of funding is dedicated to the development of innovative […]
$6-million donation creates UBC’s largest endowed scholarship
The gift from the late Sydney Friedman and Constance Livingtsone-Friedman supports travel by graduate and medical students in the health sciences.