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“By all accounts… a success”
By bkladko | May 24, 2013
UBC’s Integrated Community Clerkship program is profiled in the latest issue of the British Columbia Medical Journal.
Faculty of Medicine receives largest estate gift in its history
By bkladko | May 23, 2013
Judith Jardine, who died in 2006, left $6.4 million from her estate to support bursaries and research in the Faculty.
HRH The Duke of York dedicates cornerstone of Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
By bkladko | May 17, 2013
The Duke of York (left), UBC President Stephen J. Toope and Djavad Mowafaghian discuss the future brain health centre.
The double life of pediatrics resident Kristopher Kang
By bkladko | May 17, 2013
From the corridors of BC Children’s Hospital to gunfire and bombs, subsistence poverty and rudimentary governance.
MD class of 2015 donation gives a lift to low-income patients
By bkladko | May 17, 2013
The students donated $9,292 to Hope Air, which arranges free flights for patients needing specialized care.
Strength training + cardio workouts = less time at the doctor
By bkladko | May 14, 2013
Yoga or Pilates, however, don’t help, according to the study of senior women published in PLOS ONE.
UBC cardiologists help show that blood thinner is safe for patients getting cardiac devices
By bkladko | May 14, 2013
Andrew Krahn, one of the study’s organizers, said the findings will simplify pre-operative drug treatment to prevent strokes.
2013 Faculty of Medicine Awards
By Patricia Angel | May 14, 2013
Anthony Phillips, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, received the Bill and Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award.
Learning medicine at the "boundary of the world"
By bkladko | May 7, 2013
For a doctor in training, a residency rotation on Haida Gwaii is an assigment like no other.
Two doses of HPV vaccine can be as protective as three
By bkladko | May 2, 2013
The findings, published in JAMA, could lead to more widespread use of the vaccine, which prevents cervical cancer.