UBC’s Rural Family Medicine Residency Program expanding to Kootenay Boundary region
The expansion will build on new residency programs in the Coastal and Interior regions of B.C.
An injection of youth
Meet the two youngest medical students in UBC history.
A road less travelled
To build a more diverse medical workforce, UBC has been encouraging youths in Aboriginal, rural and remote communities to consider careers in health.
Therapeutics Initiative takes aim at multiple prescriptions
In its latest bulletin, the advisory group urges physicians to be vigilant about the number of different drugs their patients are taking.
Federal health minister tours UBC’s brain health centre
Brian MacVicar, Co-Director of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, was one of three researchers to meet with Canada’s Minister of Health, Rona Ambrose.
UBC lauds pioneers in heart failure and brain imaging
Cardiologist Paul Armstrong and neuroscientist Alan Evans have won the Margolese National Prizes in Heart and Brain Disorders from the Faculty of Medicine.
B.C. and U.S. support expansion of UBC’s addiction research and training
The $5.5 million will help train more addiction specialists and support clinical trials.
Coastal community partnerships enrich residency training for new doctors
Jessica Palmer is part of the first cohort of eight Coastal family practice residents.
Opening doors for new physicians in B.C.’s Interior
Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops is one of two new training sites for medical residents in B.C.’s Interior.
A “broken barrier” theory of ALS
Associate Professor Christopher Loewen has discovered a biochemical method cells use to internally compartmentalize themselves.