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Building a Primary Care Learning Health System in BC
On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Drs. Rubee Dev, Sabrina Wong, Nathaniel Hawkins (co-directors of the BC Primary Health Care Research Network; BC-PHCRN) and Andrew Gibb (data manager of BC-PHCRN), along with guest speaker Dr. Daniel Ngui (family physician and medical director at Fraser Street Medical), presented on how the BC-PHCRN at UBC is building a primary…
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July 2024 Cedar Award: Tammy Senbel
Anyone who has met her knows that Tammy Senbel is a breath of fresh air. As the Culture, Communications and Systems Coordinator, she brings so much life to the Department of Family Practice office.
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Residents Receive Care of the Elderly Scholar Prize
The Department of Family Practice Care of the Elderly Committee awards the scholar prize to second year residents who demonstrate excellence in scholarly projects related to care of the elderly. The award supports research and scholarship that contributes to geriatrics within the discipline of family practice. This year’s recipients are as follows. Please join us…
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Team-Based Primary Care at Grow Health
“I’ve learned so much while working here and am continuing to witness such an amazing environment. There are so many women uplifting women here, which I haven’t experienced before. How well we work as a group is empowering.” – Shania Klotz, Lead MOA At Grow Health, team-based care is the standard. With a focus on…
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Invitation to Join the Clinical Faculty Mentoring Program 2024-25
Are you clinical faculty or do you have an interest in teaching/supervising students? Do you have an interest in mentorship and in doing more within the UBC Faculty of Medicine (FoM)?
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Providence Health Care Department of Family Medicine Research Award Named After Dr. Betty Calam
We are thrilled to share that our esteemed colleague, Dr. Betty Calam, has been honored with the creation of the Dr. Betty Calam Research Award from the Providence Health Care Department of Family Medicine. This recognizes Dr. Calam’s outstanding contributions to family medicine research. The Dr. Betty Calam Research Award recognizes a second year St.…
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Department of Family Practice Faculty Named in Top 50 Cited Primary Care Researchers List
Members of the UBC Department of Family Practice have been named to the primary care researchers most-cited list.
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Building Bridges: An Overview of Social Prescribing for Older Adults in British Columbia
Margaret Lin, Bev Pitman, Prab Sandhu and Maureen Ashe Social prescribing is a health and social model of care that recognizes community-based knowledge, resources, and other types of care or support. Informed by the social determinants of health, it aims to address people’s unmet social needs. Although it has been around for some time, a…
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OPEN HOUSE: Family Practice Enhanced Skills
The Enhanced Skills Program will be holding a virtual open house on July 18, 2024 at 5:30 pm PST. This will be an opportunity to connect with our program directors and administrators across Category 1 and Category 2 programs.
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June 2024 Cedar Award: Blake Dobie
Nominated by Cecilia Duran Blake Dobie has been with the Midwifery Program for over a decade, working in a variety of roles before being promoted to Senior Administrative Business Manager. He first helped run a pilot for international midwives before taking on the role of student services manager. In 2015, Blake took on a leadership…
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Building a Primary Care Learning Health System in BC
When: Wednesday, June 12 from 12 – 1 pmWhere: Zoom Talk Abstract The BC Primary Health Care Research Network (BC-PHCRN) sits in the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health, is part of the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) and houses the BC arm of the Canadian Primary…
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Family Doctor Day 2024
This Family Doctor Day, the BC College of Family Physicians and the UBC Department of Family Practice acknowledge that family physicians are the bedrock of our healthcare system.
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Meet the Rural Immersion Residents
Starting this July, medical graduates will have the opportunity to further specialize in rural family medicine through our new and innovative Rural Immersion program — the first of its kind in BC and one of the very few offered at medical schools across Canada. With that, we would like to welcome the four incoming Rural Immersion Site…
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May 2024 Cedar Award: Lindsay Gowland
Lindsay Gowland, is a standout manager known for unparalleled responsiveness and proactive leadership. She consistently ensures seamless operational flow of the department’s Enhanced Skills Program and has an astute awareness of areas that need attention. With her reputation for being dedicated, inspiring and making things happen, Lindsay is the worthy recipient of the May Cedar…
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April 2024 Cedar Award: Flora and Leo Wong
This month, we are proud to highlight Drs. Flora and Leo Wong as the recipients of the Cedar Award. See below for what Bill Upward had to say about them and their contributions to the Department of Family Practice.
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Dr. Nichole Fairbrother Attends House of Commons Standing Committee on Health
Dr. Nichole Fairbrother was invited to appear before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Health in Ottawa last Thursday. She served on a panel for women’s mental health as one of only a small number of perinatal mental health scientists. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Health studies issues that relate to Health…
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Empower Elderly Care: Join Our Innovative Working Groups
The UBC Department of Family Practice Care if the Elderly Committee is looking for people to join their working group.
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Department of Family Practice Launches New Rural Family Medicine Residency Program
The Rural Immersion program will train UBC family medicine resident doctors in communities across northern BC
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UBC and BC Rural Health Network Address the Gap Between Community Voices and Policy and Decision Making
Advancing Community Engagement in Healthcare in Rural BC: A gap analysis to improve community involvement in healthcare A recent gap analysis has been published by the UBC Centre for Rural Health Research (Department of Family Practice) and the BC Rural Health Network. The Gap Analysis project was funded by the Social Planning and Research Council…
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DFP Launches Curriculum Mapping App
collaboration with the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Digital Solutions EdTech team, the UBC Family Practice Residency Program created a user-friendly, highly intuitive and standardized curriculum mapping tool that is consistent across all of the program’s distributed training sites.
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March 2024 Cedar Award: Ada Okonkwo-Dappa
This month, the Department recognizes Ada Okonkwo-Dappa for the Cedar Award. Thank you to Erza Mjekiqi for submitting the nomination! I am thrilled to nominate Ada for her outstanding work as an evaluation and engagement analyst at the Innovation Support Unit. Ada plays a vital role as the lead coordinator for our CapEs project, demonstrating…
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R3 Enhanced Skills Program Openings
The Department of Family Practice offers a number of residency positions for family physicians in the province of British Columbia for the purpose of developing specific advanced skills. These positions represent a commitment on the part of the department, and the Faculty of Medicine, to respond to community needs in an effective way. See below…
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HealtheSteps® Lifestyle Counselling for the Prevention of Chronic Disease
The Lifestyle Research Team led by Dr. Robert Petrella, Head (Chair) of the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, are excited to announce the return of the Continuing Professional Development activity called HealtheSteps® Lifestyle Counselling for the Prevention of Chronic Disease for physicians and primary care providers. By completing the CPD…
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The Restorative Imperative in Healthcare: Broadening the Definition of Healing
Save the Date Event Details Start: April 19 @ 10:00 amEnd: April 19 @ 12:00 pmVenue: Life Sciences Centre (LSC) – 1001, 2350 Health Sciences MallZoom: Details released post email registrationCategories: UBC Midwifery Program, Restorative Justice UBC Midwifery is hosting a free keynote lecture on restorative justice, and we are extending this invitation to all our partners and colleagues.…
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February 2024 Cedar Award: Dr. Caroline Shooner
The Department is proud to recognize Dr. Caroline Shooner as the recipient of the February Cedar Award. Dr. Shooner is a family physician and GP oncologist. Dr Shooner is the educational lead at Haida Gwaii Hospital, responsible for both medical students and residents rotating at the remote, rural site.
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January 2024 Cedar Award: Dr. Alicia Pawluk
This month the Awards Committee is excited to recognize Dr. Alicia Pawluk for the Cedar Award. Dr. Pawluk is the director of Care of the Elderly and a clinical assistant professor who specializes in geriatric addictions and emergency medicine on Vancouver Island. Her work focuses on improving elderly care through both clinical practice and teaching.
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Announcing Dr. Meera Anand as Interim Undergrad Program Director
The Department of Family Practice is pleased to announce that Dr. Meera Anand has been appointed to the role of Interim Undergraduate Program Director. Having previously held the role of year 1 and 2 lead for the program, Dr. Anand is stepping in to take on oversight.
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Using The Virtual Brain to Trace Trajectories of Brain Health in Ageing Summary
Event Details Lecture Title: Using The Virtual Brain to Trace Trajectories of Brain Health in Ageing Summary: We introduced The Virtual Brain (TVB) to the neuroscience community a decade ago. It was the first platform for creating large-scale simulations of human brain networks and has continued to evolve as a community project, extending to multiple basic and clinical applications and extensions…
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Thrive in Stressful Times: Introducing the Fountain of Health and “THRIVE” Approach to Well-being
Dr. Keri-Leigh Cassidy, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University 1:00 PM PT | January 24, 2024 | Virtual session Dr. Cassidy will discuss how the THRIVE© Approach to wellbeing uniquely integrates key findings from science of well-being, brain neuroplasticity, resilience, preventative medicine, and behaviour change. Register here for the lecture.
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A Foundation of Wellness in the Department of Family Practice
“Our culture of wellness for residents, students, faculty and staff take root in the fundamental values of respect, humility, honesty, equity, justice and compassion. From these fundamental values a supporting structure grows that embraces the foundational principles of transparency, responsiveness, collaboration, inclusion, diversity and safety.”
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December Cedar Award: Dr. Marlowe Haskins
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Marlowe Haskins on receiving the December Cedar Award. Marlowe is a long-standing family doctor, and is the rural director for the Postgraduate Program. He was nominated by Larissa McLean. From Larissa: Marlowe is a dedicated and enthusiastic preceptor in his community. He provides excellent guidance to all family practice…
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Dr. Joshua Greggain Appointed as DFP Postgrad Program Director
The Department is pleased to announce Dr. Josh Greggain as the new director of the Family Practice Residency Program. This appointment comes following the tenure of Dr. Mark MacKenzie. Dr. Greggain will officially start on January 1, 2024, with a transition period beginning in December.
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Team-Based Primary Care at St. Luke Family Practice
When Drs. Leo and Flora Wong opened the doors to their practice, they informed patients of their team approach to care. They didn’t struggle to find patients who were comfortable seeing two physicians.
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Postgrad Program Expands to 23 Residency Training Sites Across the Province
The DFP Postgraduate Program has expanded to include three new sites—North Okanagan, Cowichan and Rural Immersion—bringing the program to a total of 23 sites across British Columbia.
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October Cedar Award: Dr. Sharon Vipler
This month, the Department recognizes Clinical Associate Professor Dr. Sharon Vipler for the Cedar Award. Thank you to Dr. Nitasha Puri for submitting the nomination! Read below for what Nitasha has to say about her friend and colleague:
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Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – September 30, 2023
September 30th is a day to remember and to honour survivors and those children who never came home from residential schools.
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September Research Round: Codesigning continuity of midwifery carer models of practice for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and babies
When: Wednesday, September 27 @ 2:30pm Where: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69133930641?pwd=bmpJS3lZSksrVWVKZU1CakFHSTNqdz09 Abstract In 2019 the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women was 17.5 per 100,000, while the MMR was 5.5 for non-Indigenous women. The Growing Deadly Families strategy (the strategy) aims to improve outcomes for women birthing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies…
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Department Recognition: Cecilia Jevitt
The Department would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Cecilia Jevitt for her five-year tenure as the director of the UBC Midwifery Program. As of September 1, Dr. Jevitt has handed over the role to Dr. Kellie Thiessen. Since 2018, Dr. Jevitt has led the program through a number of incredible accomplishments and substantial…
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Team-Based Primary Care at Langley City Family Practice
The need for primary care has never been more critical. Knowing that, the leads at Langley City Family Practice saw an opportunity to enhance their clinic—and they seized it.
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August Cedar Award: DJ Santos
The UBC Sport and Exercise Medicine Clinic (SEM) recognizes DJ Santos for the August Cedar Award.