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:
- A letter of request for promotion addressed to Dr. Roy Purssell and Dr. John Tallon, Co-Heads, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- A letter of support from your Emergency Department Site Head
- An up-to-date Abbreviated (short-form) UBC CV filled out in detail
Useful links and templates:
- UBC Faculty of Medicine Policy on Clinical Faculty Appointments
- UBC Faculty of Medicine Application for Clinical Faculty Appointment (MDs)
- UBC Faculty of Medicine Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
- Instructions for Filling Out Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
- UBC payment Instruction Form-TTPS
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:
- Clinical Faculty Payment Instruction Form TTPS - This form is only required for Clinical Faculty members teaching in the MD Programs.
- Payment Instructions & Declaration for Services- This form is only required for a payment to an individuals who does not have a UBC appointment
- Ottawa Ankle Rule
- Ottawa Knee Rule
- Peak Flow Calculator
- Canadian CT Head Rule
- Canadian C-Spine Rule
- Nexus C-Spine Rule
- Well's DVT Criteria
- Well's PE Criteria
- PERC Rule
- CURB 65
- Pneumonia Severity Index
- SF Syncope Rule
- Glasgow-Blatchford GI Bleed
- Centor Pharyngitis Score
- TIMI Score for UA/NSTEMI
- ABCD2 for TIA
- Alvarado Appy Score
- King's College APAP Severity
- IScore - Ischemic Stroke Predictive Risk Score
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
- Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
- Dr Smith’s ECG Blog
- EMCrit
- EM Literature of Note
- EMRAP
- Life in the FastLane
- MD+ CALC
- The NNT
- The Poison Review
- The Trauma Professional’s Blog
- Ultrasound Podcast
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.
- Rural Physicians - The Rural Coordination Center Centre of BC has many resources for physicians practicing in community emergency departments.
- Society of Rural Physicians of Canada - A variety of resources including the Rural Critical Care Course.
- Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine - A great resource (especially their "Occasional..." series - a great primer on procedures for learners as well as staff).
- Australia has a huge amount of online resources for the Rural doc, in fact Rural Medicine is its own specialty (Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine)!
- Broome Docs and KI (Kangaroo Island) Docs are both excellent blogs from rural Australian GPs - Highly recommended.
- The Heart.org - Nice summaries and discussion of recent cardiovascular trials/late breaking news
- InfoPOEMS via CMA - Free for CMA members (free, requires registration). Subscribe to the daily InfoPOEMs articles: quick reads with commentary on recent clinical trials. The CMA.ca newsletters section has a large number of other newsletters (eg. Conference notifications, practice tips, etc).