Clinical Faculty Resources

Clinical Faculty Appointments and Promotions

The UBC Department of Emergency Medicine has over 700 clinical faculty members who teach and inspire our learners. They also make significant contributions in administration, professional development, and translational and clinical research. 

Clinical faculty members may be appointed and promoted on an ongoing basis. For more information, please contact emergency.hr@ubc.ca.  

To be considered for a clinical faculty promotion, the following documentation must be submitted to emergency.hr@ubc.ca: 

  1. A letter of request for promotion addressed to Dr. Roy Purssell and Dr. John Tallon, Co-Heads, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
  2. A letter of support from your Emergency Department Site Head
  3. An up-to-date Abbreviated (short-form) UBC CV filled out in detail

Useful links and templates:

The UBC Faculty of Medicine uses the Teaching Tracking and Payment System (TTPS) to document the teaching contributions of clinical faculty members. TTPS streamlines administrative processes for managing clinical faculty information and payments.

Log into TTPS here.

For more information, please contact emergency.hr@ubc.ca.

Useful resources:

Caveat Emptor should guide our reading of ALL medical resources be it part of the Literature or on the Web. Please remember to be critical of all information before you let it guide your practice or influence education.

Searching and Evaluating the Medical Literature
  • PubMed A simplified interface to searching the MEDLINE database
  • Cochrane Collaboration Independent, volunteer reviews of clinical evidence
  • Trip Database A simple search site for EBM resources that restricts results to ~75 recognized EBM resources
  • SumSearch A metasearching service which searches MEDLINE (for review articles, guidelines, etc), Merck Manual and other textbooks, DARE database (Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effectiveness), and National Guideline Clearinghouse from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR).
  • The NNT - Quick Summaries of Evidence-Based Medicine
  • EM Literature of Note - A Blog by EM Academic Ryan Radecki that looks critically at the current EM related Literature
Searching the Internet
  • EMGoogle - A Google Custom Search Engine (created by DEM member Dr Todd Raine). Searches ONLY EM Blogs, Podcasts, Journals, and Tools.
  • UpToDate - A good tool.  Not EM focussed, but free from Vancouver Coastal Health facilities.

What on Earth is FOAM you may ask? Free Open Access Meducation - "FOAM is the movement that has spontaneously emerged from the exploding collection of constantly evolving, collaborative and interactive open access medical education resources being distributed on the web with one objective — to make the world a better place. FOAM is independent of platform or media — it includes blogs, podcasts, tweets, Google hangouts, online videos, text documents, photographs, facebook groups, and a whole lot more." Life in the Fastlane

What is FOAMed? (from the Creator, Mike Cadogan)

Caveat Emptor should guide our reading of ALL medical resources be it part of the Literature or on the Web. Please remember to be critical of all information before you let it guide your practice or influence education.

FOAM Resources
  • EMGoogle – search engine designed to interrogate emergency medicine and critical care (EMCC)  blogs (via @RaineDoc)
  • FOAMEM RSS – Syndicated feed aggregator across all EMCC blogs (via @EMChatter)
Best of FOAM

Caveat Emptor should guide our reading of ALL medical resources be it part of the Literature or on the Web. Please remember to be critical of all information before you let it guide your practice or influence education.