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/
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Dr. Ka Wai Cheung for her success in receiving the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Mentored Clinical Scientist Award.
This is a significant achievement and a major step in Ka Wai’s academic career. Her focus will be on smoking cessation in patients seen in the emergency department and we wish her the best of success. The link at the UBC website is: http://www.med.ubc.ca/about_us/Awards_and_Honours.htm
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Plant for being chosen as the recipient of the Faculty of Medicine Award for Innovation in CME/CPD
This award recognizes outstanding innovation and/or creativity with original work in the area of CME/CPD programming. Dr. Plant’s award is a very positive reflection on the Department of Emergency Medicine.
UBC Emergency Medicine Contributing to the Success of the 2010 Olympics
The Vancouer 2010 Olympics are finally here and the gargantuan effort of bringing the world to Vancouver could not have happened without the desire, dedication and drive of many individuals. Many of the faculty and staff of the Department of Emergency Medicine have contributed to a number of different aspects of the 2010 Olympic Games. […]