UBC’s Faculty Development Office (i.e., Heather Buckley’s team) has released their updated Teaching Skills for Community-based Preceptors booklet.
It is available in hard copy form or digital form, and has a companion webpage with lots of supplemental information to support the concise content found in the booklet.
Check out UBC’s CTLT’s Generative AI events for Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 4–8th.
Panel | Making the Tech Happen for AI in Teaching
May 5 | 9:30 am-11:30 am | In-person: UBCV
Hear from faculty teams as they share the behind-the-scenes stories of developing AI tools for their courses, including the ideas, the challenges, and the moments it all came together. Register.
Panel | Promoting Responsible GenAI Practices in Students’ Writing
May 5 | 10:00 am-11:30 am | Online
While generative artificial intelligence offers new opportunities in education, unguided use can hinder students’ learning as it may lead to over-reliance. Discuss an integrated approach that promotes students’ writing autonomy and critical thinking. Register.
Everything’s Changed Again: So What About AI?
May 5 | 2:00 pm-3:00 pm | In-person: UBCV
Join the UBC Studios team for a chat with faculty as they explore real examples, from lightboard teaching and AI-supported math instruction to research on AI and media ethics. Register.
Panel | AI in Assessment
May 6 | 1:00 pm-3:00 pm | In-person: UBCO
This panel brings together expert panellists for a candid, practical conversation on exactly how AI is reshaping what we teach and how we teach it. Register.
Hi Team! This short faculty development discussion session will focus on two important practice supports: the Faculty Feedback and Support Form, and the transition to One45 for Coaching Notes.
The session will provide a practical overview of both tools, clarify their purpose, and create space for questions and discussion.
The goal is to support preceptors and residents in documenting feedback clearly, using program processes more confidently, and strengthening the quality of coaching information that supports resident learning.
Please join us on Friday, May 22, 2026, from 7:00 to 7:45 am PT.
Department of Family Practice 2026 Research Half Day
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:45 pm PT | Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre (DHCC) | Virtual and in-person
The DFP Research Office is pleased to invite you to the 2026 Research Half Day on June 3. This will be a pilot event to celebrate the innovative research produced by our academic faculty, clinical faculty, learners, and staff. The event will include two research capacity building sessions and a research poster showcase.
Please register to join us using the link below. If you would like to include your research poster in the lineup, please write to Hiresh Gindwani at dfp.research@ubc.ca.
From generative AI chatbots to AI-based glaucoma screening, this issue explores the growing role of artificial intelligence in primary care. The possibilities are significant, but important questions remain around regulation, patient safety, and the meaningful empowerment of both patients and clinicians.
The UBC Faculty of Medicine is home not only to Canada’s largest family medicine residency program, but to more than 70 specialty and sub-speciality residency programs.
Together, these programs are equipping the next generation of doctors with specialized skills and knowledge to support patients and families facing medical challenges, ranging from cancer through to spinal cord injuries and dementia.
“When residents train here, they’re not just gaining critical skills, they’re joining a community of care professionals.”
– Dr. Matthew Turnock
Thanks to the Faculty’s province-wide approach to medical education that began more than two decades ago, UBC resident doctors can be found at more than 135 training sites across B.C., ranging from the community of Castlegar, nestled in the Selkirk Mountains of the Interior, all the way to the island archipelago of Haida Gwaii off the north coast.
Read more on Resident Doctors on the Front Lines via UBC.
Applauding New York City hospitals recent move to design a system tailored to its own healthcare context while ensuring that their patient data remains in-house. The NHS and Canada should consider a similar approach. More on the topic below:
Ensuring the sovereignty and security of Canadian health data via CMAJ.
New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK via The Guardian.
“But to be truly human means not abandoning those who need your humanity. Tell the world about us. Tell them that we were more human than those who only claimed to be. Tell them we chose death over abandoning our noble mission. Do not call us heroes-just tell them we understood what it truly means to be human.” Mohammed Saqer, Nursing Director, Nasser Medical Complex.
Two years into the conflict, and physicians and humanitarian workers continue to describe devastating conditions in Gaza. Dr. Elise Thorburn’s account of providing care in Gaza is deeply troubling. Her description of children with traumatic injuries, families living in tents, and hospitals operating with severe shortages reflects the devastating human consequences of prolonged conflict. These are not abstract conditions. They are lived realities for civilians, patients, and healthcare workers trying to survive and provide care under unimaginable circumstances.
These concerns echo themes raised in recent conversations at UBC’s RECAP: Health Report from Gaza, where speakers drew attention to the destruction of healthcare infrastructure in Gaza, the extreme pressures on physicians and trainees, and the broader humanitarian implications of sustained attacks on civilian life and medical systems.
At minimum, these accounts from multiple communities call on us to resist indifference. They ask us to recognize the human cost of conflict, to uphold the protection of civilians and healthcare workers, and to affirm the importance of humanitarian principles in times of profound suffering.
As members of an academic and healthcare community, we have a responsibility to engage seriously with these realities, to support the protection of healthcare workers and patients, and to affirm the importance of human dignity, medical neutrality, and access to care.
Further reading: N.L. doctor recounts horrors of month working in Gaza hospital treating Palestinian patients via CBC News Scared and malnourished – footage from Gaza shows plight of children and aftermath of Israeli strike via BBC BC Physicians Against Genocide: https://www.instagram.com/bc.physicians.against.genocide/
Family Medicine Residency Site: Abbotsford-Mission 