Posted in Education, Research on Dec 16th, 2011 No Comments »
The biggest challenge facing life scientists — beyond curing disease, of course — is explaining what they do. Most of them are labouring on molecular mysteries that are difficult to visualize and involve a cascade of processes, and thus elude easy comprehension by the general public. And in these attention-deficient times, if it’s not easily understood, people move [...]
Posted in Education on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
In 2004, UBC embarked on a daring experiment in medical education. It began distributing the training of doctors around the province, beyond Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, to try to correct the imbalances that left many residents in places like northern BC scrambling to find physicians. By educating medical students in places like Prince George and [...]
Posted in Education on May 12th, 2010 No Comments »
OK, so maybe there’s some truth to the “ivory tower” image of universities, even at UBC. But here’s a notable exception: ”Aboriginal Public Health in Canada: Ethics, Policy and Practice,” a graduate-level course in the School of Population and Public Health. Taught by Associate Professor Patricia Spittal (pictured on right), the course brings in speakers, including [...]
Posted in Education on Oct 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Between 2004 and 2007, UBC’s Faculty of Medicine doubled the size of its entering classes, from 128 to 256 a year. Such a dramatic expansion in enrollment might have led some people to wonder if the quality of the student body would be diluted. On the contrary… Statistics from the latest batch of entering students to [...]
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