The Value of Home Visits in Primary Care
The Value of Home Visits in Primary Care Ruvini Amarasekera, MD Candidate (UBC Medicine Class of 2023) Dr. Sarah Bartlett, MD CCFP, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs (UBC Medicine Vancouver-Fraser Program) Dr. Judith Hammond, MD CCFP (COE) The last two and a half years in the COVID-19 pandemic have amplified the importance of being […]
Thoughtfully Observing Adverse Effects of Drugs: Old-School Dr. Tom Perry Teaches How to Spot Tell-Tale Signs of Drug Harm
Dr. Tom Perry believes that listening and observing thoughtfully can help protect patients from avoidable adverse drug effects. As a specialist in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology at UBC he often uses video recordings to demonstrate changes in functioning of patients after reducing or stopping problematic medications. (Alan Cassels at the Therapeutics Initiative interviewed him […]
AMiNDR (A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research) Podcast
By: Sarah Louadi, UBC MD Class of 2024. What is AMiNDR (a brief introduction)? AMiNDR is an open-access knowledge dissemination tool for researchers and clinicians who are interested in neurodegenerative diseases. We present the abstracts published on Alzheimer’s disease by category in an audio format to help scientists keep up with the new literature in […]
Writing Award 2020-2021
Special thanks to all UBCMJ authors for their amazing submissions this academic year. We are excited to announce Braedon Paul as the winner of our Distinguished Writing Award for the 2020-2021 academic year! Braeden was a fourth-year medical student and has now graduated. He has been writing for UBCMJ for the past four years! Please […]
Interview with an MD/PhD Candidate: Introducing Shayda Swann
We chat with third-year MD/PhD Candidate, Shayda Swann. Tell us a little bit about your research project. My project focuses on healthy aging in women living with HIV, from cell to society! I’m part of the “British Columbia CARMA-CHIWOS Collaboration” (affectionately known as BCC3), a community-collaborative study that will be collecting clinical samples (everything from […]