Author: UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Program

Virtual Pub & Papers 2020: Scholar Event
Wednesday, May 13
7:00 – 9:15 p.m.
Zoom link (provided via email, closer to date)

Join our UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Program as we recognize our Residents’ scholarly achievements and the contributions of our fantastic Preceptors and Rotation Leads.

This engagement is an opportunity for our Residents to share their research with our surrounding community and for our program to continue to network, collaborate, and build upon the ideas and insights emerging from our Residents’ work.

Check out our Pub & Papers 2020 Agenda & Scholar Project Summaries to learn more about what we have in store!

UPDATE: This event has been accredited by UBC CPD
Certification statement
The University of British Columbia Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide study credits for continuing medical education for physicians.  This program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 2.0 Mainpro+ Group Learning credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity. CFPC Session ID#: 192505-001

Warm regards, 

Drs. Iris Liu, Jennafer Wilson, & Jacqueline Ashby

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“There is a lot of fear in this current story, and until recently, the stories that seemed to have the most power are those of bitterness, of how it had all gone wrong for us individually and collectively. It has been inspiring to watch how the best comes from the worst. How people are waking up in this time of global reckoning to the realization that our connections with each other are some of the most important things we have.

But stepping back. For all we’ve had to lament, we spend very little time relishing the single biggest thing that has ever gone right for us. That we are here in the first place, that we are alive at all. That we are still alive. A million and a half years after finding a box of matches, we haven’t totally burned the house down. Yet. The chances of being here are infinitesimal. Yet here we are. Perils and all.” ~ Oliver Jeffers

Enjoy more of Oliver’s observations on how our ‘beautiful, fragile drama of human civilization’ is evolving here.

UBC Faculty of Medicine CPD: COVID-19 Update: Innovation and Change in Family Practice arising from COVID-19 Pandemic

This upcoming webinar will include a panel of presenters and participants will be prompted to ask their questions in real time using webinar technology. We encourage you to send your questions in early.

Key Speakers: Dr. Jaron Easterbrook, Dr. Daniel Ngui, & Dr. Richard Welsh

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020
Broadcast starts: 7:00 PM PDT Online
Register here.

If you’re not prepared to be wrong,
you’ll never come up with anything original.

~ Dr. Ken Robinson

The Western Canada COVID-19 Medical Student Response Team (WE-CAN COVID-19 MSRT) is a student-led, grassroots initiative with the primary objective of empowering medical students to support physicians and public health authorities in their efforts against COVID-19.

More on WE-CAN COVID-19 MSRT here.

“We are pleased to announce Dr. Kate Shannon was awarded one of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Sex and Gender Science Chairs. Dr. Shannon is among 15 Canadian leaders across diverse disciplines who received CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chairs. 

Dr. Kate Shannon, PhD, MPH (Global Health) is the Executive Director of the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, a Professor of Medicine and a Canada Research Chair in Gender Equity, Sexual Health and Global Policy at the University of British Columbia where she helps lead the university’s efforts on gender equity and sexual health care among underserviced and marginalized communities.”

Learn more about her work here.

NEW: Indigenous Patient-Led CPD

We are an Elder-led group from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds working together to increase cultural safety and humility in rural BC by building relationships with First Nation communities and physician communities.
To learn more, visit Indigenous Patient-Led CPD.
To access the Cultural Safety Mindfulness During a Pandemic document, click here.