Recent News & Updates
Call for Submissions: Putting Patients First, November 14, 2024, Vancouver
The BC SUPPORT Unit is accepting submissions for the Putting Patients First 2024 conference. This year’s conference showcases why learning communities are…
Kerston Award: Celebrating 10 years of outstanding community educators!
On June 24th, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Kerston Community Educator Award at the annual UBC Health Awards…
Health Mentors Program: Accepting Applications!
UBC’s Health Mentors program needs volunteers who live with a chronic illness, or who are caregivers, to share their healthcare…
Survey: UBC Health Wants to Hear from You!
UBC Health is at the mid-point of a 5-year strategic plan and wants to know, ‘How are we doing?’ The survey aims to…
CPERC 2024: Canadian Pharmacy Education & Research Conference
In June, Darren Lauscher travelled to Quebec City to present our collaboration with Dr. Jane Xia that brings patient journeys…
Student Research Project: Understanding the Experience of Persons Living with Mental Illness
My name is Patience Emanuel. I’m a first-year UBC medical student conducting research under the supervision of Dr. Angela Towle…
New Living Library Video: ‘We are much more than our diagnosis’
My name is Sara Mohamed, and I’m part of the MD class of 2027. For my FLEX project, I wanted…
Save the Date: 3rd International Conference Where’s the Patient’s Voice in Health Professional Education? Nov 12-15, 2025
It’s been 20 years since the 1st conference in 2005 started an international and interdisciplinary movement to embed the patient’s…
New Publication: Guiding Principles for Patient and Public Engagement
We recently published a set of guiding principles for patient engagement in health professional education. The principles were co-created with…
Conference: International Congress on Academic Medicine
In April, we gave several presentations and workshops at the International Congress on Academic Medicine in Vancouver. The conference brought…
