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Dr. Jane Lea has been nominated as a CFMS Culture Change Champion
Congratulations to Dr. Jane Lea, Otolaryngology, who has been nominated as a Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) Culture Change Champion for her contribution to a positive learning environment at UBC! She has made such a meaningful difference in the lives of medical students. Dr. Lea has been very active in global surgical care, with […]
Registration Open for the Bethune Round Table 2021
The Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS), in association with McGill University, is very proud to announce the Bethune Round Table 2021! The Bethune Round Table (BRT) is an annual interdisciplinary meeting aimed at addressing the challenges of providing accessible, high-quality surgical care to marginalized patients in low-resource settings. By bringing health professionals across a […]
Feature: Yevugah Jerome-Jerry Kwasi
Dr. Emilie Joos, BISC Associate Director, recently interviewed Yevugah Jerome-Jerry Kwasi, a current candidate for the UBC Master of Global Surgical Care program.
Publication Feature: The burden of waiting: wait times for pediatric surgical procedures in Quebec and compliance with national benchmarks
Brandon Arulanandam, Marc Dorais, Patricia Li and Dan Poenaru, co-instructor of SURG 512, recently published an article to assess compliance with Paediatric Canadian Access Targets for Surgery (P-CATS) guidelines and determine the burden incurred due to waiting for 3 common elective surgical conditions (inguinal hernia, cryptorchidism and hypospadias) in a pediatric population. To read the full text, please […]
SURG 560 Final Report: External Validation of an Ethical Framework in Global Surgery
Regan Guilfoyle, a student of the MGSC program, recently published their SURG 560 final report to UBC cIRcle. This report is a summary of the final practicum project “External Validation of an Ethical Framework in Global Surgery” conducted in December 2019. To read the full text, please visit here.