Congratulations to Jill McEwen who has received the Canadian Association for Medical Education (“CAME”) Certificate of Merit Award for 2013
Congratulations to Jill McEwen who has been selected to receive a Canadian Association for Medical Education (“CAME”) Certificate of Merit Award for 2013.The CAME Award is given to three UBC faculty members each year who have made a valuable contribution to medical education in our Faculty. The Award consists of a certificate and CAME membership […]
Public notification of the addition of Emergency Medicine as an entry route to the subspecialty of Pain Medicine
This memo is provided to stakeholders of the Royal College, to seek your feedback on a proposed change to add Emergency Medicine as a route of entry to the newly recognized subspecialty of Pain Medicine. Please click here to read more information.
Open invitation to the upcoming Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consortium Meeting
This is an open invitation to the upcoming Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consortium Meeting which will be held in Seattle in January 2013. This is a unique conference of three North-Pacific Pediatric Emergency Medicine Divisions: BC Children’s Hospital Seattle Children’s Hospital OHSU Emergency Medicine/Doernbecher Children’s Hospital http://pacificnwpem.org/
Congratulations to UBC EM resident Dr. Doug Brown on a NEJM publication
Congratulations are in order to UBC RCPS-EM Senior Resident Dr. Doug Brown for his lead author publication on accidental hypothermia in the November 15, 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. A first author publication in the NEJM while still in residency is a remarkable accomplishment that is unprecedented in the history of […]
Position available for Department of Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director
Applications are invited for the position of Department of Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director. This position is open to Department of Emergency Medicine faculty members from all of the distributed sites. The DEM Clerkship Director will be appointed within the Department of Emergency Medicine, and will report to the Department of Emergency Medicine Undergraduate Education Program […]
Critical appraisal templates now available on DEM website
Critical appraisal templates now available on DEM website It is recommended that whenever possible Journal Club presenters use a standardized template to organize their review. To facilitate this, templates have now been posted on the Journal Club section of the DEM website from the UK “Critical Appraisal Skills Program”. These are the same templates that […]
Congratulations to Rod McFadyen in his new role as UBC Specialty Medical Director/CPD Educator and Royal College CPD Educator Region 1
Congratulations to Rod McFadyen in his new role as UBC Specialty Medical Director/CPD Educator and Royal College CPD Educator Region 1. Rod works with the Victoria group and has a long interest and experience in education at all levels. We are indeed honoured to pleased for Rod. He will be an exceptional professional education leader and a […]
Dr. Terry Klassen will be visiting professor for 2013 EM Research Day
The DEM is pleased to announce that Dr. Terry Klassen, Director of Research for the Manitoba Institute of Child Health and Associate Dean Academic at the University of Manitoba, has agreed to be the Visiting Professor for 2013 UBC EM Research Day on April 10, 2013. Dr. Klassen is an internationally known and highly respected […]
Dr. Gary Andolfatto’s paper in top 25 annals of EM downloads
Congratulations to DEM Faculty Member and ED Research Director at Lion’s Gate Hospital Dr. Gary Andolfatto. From April-June 2012, the full text of Gary’s paper, “Ketamine-Propofol Combination (Ketofol) Versus Propofol Alone for Emergency Department Procedural Sedation and Analgesia: A Randomized Double-Blind Trial,” was among the top 25 downloads from the Annals of Emergency Medicine website. […]