Two members of UBC’s faculty of medicine community have been honoured with 2024 Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Awards for their leadership, excellence and achievements in academic medicine.
AFMC Learner Changemaker Award
Dr. Hadal El-Hadi is the recipient of a Learner Changemaker Award, which recognizes exceptional medical learners who have created real and meaningful change for those training in Canadian faculties of medicine or health sciences faculties.
Dr. El-Hadi is a second-year resident in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and a first-generation immigrant from Sudan. Her interests and experiences are focused on structural and systemic inequities and their impacts on health equity, health promotion and access to culturally safe care for marginalized communities, including Black as well as immigrant and refugee health.
Dr. El-Hadi’s interests in advocacy and equity has motivated her in multiple facets of her career. She strongly believes in the importance of educating and motivating people into taking notice of injustices and working as a team to improve the lives of those around us. One of the biggest reasons she pursued medicine as a career was because she wanted to be part of a collective that helps children and adults in Canada and globally have a fighting chance to be happy. Her interests include working with national non-profit organizations to address anti-Black racism in Canada, as well as conducting health equity research.
AFMC John Ruedy Award for Excellence in Graduate Health Professions Education Scholarship
Dr. Vincent Wong is the recipient of the AFMC John Ruedy Award for Excellence In Graduate Health Professions Education Scholarship, which recognizes learners for their scholarly potential in health professions education (HPE).
Dr. Wong is an assistant clinical professor in the department of family practice. He is a family physician who completed his BScPharm, MD and MHA at the University of British Columbia. He is the Co-Site Director, Vancouver-Fraser Site, and the Assessment Portfolio Co-Director, of the UBC Family Practice Residency Program. He is serving as the President for the BC College of Family Physicians for 2023-24.
Dr. Wong is currently a graduate student in the Masters in Health Professions Education program at Maastricht University, and his master’s thesis focuses on the development of teacher identity in family physician preceptors in a community-based practice context.