Upcoming Events
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May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar
Housing Is Healthcare: Equity In Access For All Residents Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Inequities exist within Canada’s public healthcare system, including geographic disparities that impact access to care. In British Columbia, patients who need highly specialized care must access their treatment in the Lower Mainland.…
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April 2025 Rounds | Dr. Robert Petrella
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with our department head, Dr. Robert Petrella! Sport Fandom as an Engagement Innovation in Hard-to-Reach Populations: A Cluster RCT to Evaluate a Community-Based Health Behaviour Change Intervention Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Obesity is a relapsing, progressive chronic…
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February 2025 Rounds | Dr. Nisha Malhotra and Dr. Ruvini Amarasekera
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with Nisha Malhotra (The Birthplace Lab) and Ruvini Amarasekera (R2, St. Paul’s Hospital) Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific TimeTitle 1: Healthcare Disparities in Canada: Examining the Role of Socio-Economic Status and Identity Factors (12:00 – 12:55)Title 2: Embedding Indigenous Ways of Knowing…
News and Announcements
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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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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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A Postpartum Harm Thoughts Educational Infographic
By: Nichole Fairbrother Unwanted intrusive thoughts of infant-related harm are a ubiquitous phenomenon. Unwanted, intrusive thoughts of accidental harm (what if something happens to my baby) are reported by almost all new birthing parents, and unwanted, intrusive thoughts of harming one’s infant on purpose are reported by fully one half of all birthing parents. Although…
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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.