The Department of Emergency Medicine is involved in undergraduate teaching through all four years of the UBC MD Program. Our faculty participate in Years 1 & 2 teaching, and we offer a limited number of observer shifts (2) for interested UBC medical students in those pre-clinical years at many sites. We teach the Basic Procedures Workshop which is held at the end of Year 2 (TiCE – Transition into Clinical Education). UBC was the first medical school in Canada to include a mandatory four-week Year 3 EM Core Clerkship for all students (now 288). The clerkship is delivered at 14 teaching sites across four clinical academic campuses and an additional 6 Integrated Community Clerkship Sites. Students consistently rate the EM clerkship the most highly. We also offer additional 4 week electives in Year 4 to both UBC and out of province students.
Dr. Kendall Ho Award in Digital Emergency Medicine
Awards totaling $3,500 have been made available through an endowment established by Dr. Kendall Ho (M.D. 1986) for M.D. students who demonstrate an interest to apply digital emergency medicine in rural, urban or remote contexts. Preference will be given to students who demonstrate financial need and to students who are from communities that have been historically, persistently and systemically marginalized. Dr. Kendall Ho is an emergency medical specialist in Vancouver, a professor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He leads the Digital Emergency Medicine Unit and is recognized for his ground-breaking research in digital health. The award has been established to help remove barriers for future generations of physicians who wish to improve access to health care for vulnerable communities through digital approaches. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Medicine. (First award available for the 2023/2024 winter session).