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Drugs at Music Festivals: CCSA Teams Up with UBC’s Mass Gathering Medicine Interest Group

The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) has partnered with UBC’s Mass Gathering Medicine Interest Group to build consistency in approaches to reducing harm at music festivals as a result of substance use. After a national meeting in January 2015, working groups have now been established to begin implementing recommendations centered around four key areas. Read the report […]

CONGRATULATIONS to the RCPS Resident UBC Simulation team

     They were exceptional and won FIRST PRIZE at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting in Edmonton. FRCPS (EM) residents Nicolle Holm, Wesley Jang and Kelsey Innes and Nurse Leader and long time ACLS/CPR instructor Sherry Stackhouse showed how a great resuscitation team functions and beat out very stiff competition from other […]

Congratulations Dave Sweet, Global Sepsis Award 2015

  It is a great pleasure to tell you that Dave Sweet has won the Global Sepsis Award! Please click here to view award letter to David Sweet. Dave has been the BC Champion for Clinical Care Management of Sepsis and has tirelessly promoted and advocated for the widespread implementation of effective and early care. This international award […]