News and Events

Events

  • June 2025 Rounds | Dr. Ilona Hale

    Date: Wednesday 18 June 2025
    Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

    Bringing Environmental Sustainability to Research

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  • May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar

    Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025
    Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

    Housing Is Healthcare: Equity In Access For All Residents

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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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News and Announcements

  • 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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