Walkable neighbourhoods produce better health outcomes
Lawrence Frank, Professor in the School of Population and Public Health, found that people who prefer to walk and live in walkable neighbourhoods are healthier.
Physician, teach thyself
New technologies are helping future doctors take their education into their own hands.
Big jump coming for UBC’s speech-language pathology program
First-year slots in the master’s degree program will grow by 56 per cent, to help address the shortage of therapists.
New research finds quicker method to create insulin-producing cells
Professor Timothy Kieffer leads research of a protocol that turns stem cells into insulin-producing cells in just six weeks
Occupational therapist-turned-children’s author shares her personal journey
Paulette Bourgeois was the keynote at this year’s OT Capstone Conference.
UBC health researchers join new national team tackling dementia
Howard Feldman, Executive Associate Dean, Research, will serve on the consortium’s executive committee, helping to oversee clinical trials and drug discovery efforts.
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.