Clinical Faculty Equity Survey

Clinical Faculty Equity Survey

As part of the Faculty of Medicine’s commitment to equity and inclusion, clinical faculty are invited to participate in the new Faculty of Medicine Clinical Faculty Equity Survey.

As a clinical faculty member, you play a crucial role in shaping the future of our working and learning environments, and we greatly value your time and feedback as we work to identify areas where we excel and areas where we can improve.

By completing this confidential, three-minute survey via UBC Qualtrics, you will help the Faculty to better understand the diversity of the clinical faculty community, and to provide community-level data for evidence-based decision making on equity and inclusion in the working and learning environments, now and in the years ahead. Your responses are completely confidential — no individually identifiable data will be shared with leadership, management or human resources.

All clinical faculty will be sent an invitation via their email recorded in Workday with a personalized link to the survey in UBC Qualtrics. The survey closes on June 30, 2024.

See frequently asked questions below for more information. Thank you for your taking the time to support our equity and inclusion priorities.

About the survey

  • The survey consists of five questions, and will take approximately three minutes to complete.
  • Self-identification is voluntary. You may select ‘prefer not to answer’ to any or all the questions.
  • The survey link is unique to you. You do not need your UBC CWL to access the survey.
  • You may come back to revise your response at any time until the survey closes on June 30, 2024.
  • Responses to the survey are completely confidential — no individually identifiable information will be shared with leadership, management or human resources.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Clinical Faculty Equity Survey about?

This survey will provide the Faculty of Medicine with more accurate data about the clinical faculty community to better understand current workforce diversity, assess barriers to equitable participation and inform evidence-based decision making for greater equity and inclusion, now and in the years ahead.

How do I complete the survey?

On Wednesday, May 22, 2024, anyone with a clinical faculty appointment in the Faculty of Medicine will receive an email through UBC Qualtrics, containing a personalized survey link to complete the three-minute survey. The survey link is unique to you, please do not share it. You do not need your UBC Campus-Wide Login (CWL) to access the survey.

The survey invitation will be sent to your email address as recorded on UBC’s HR system Workday. If you have not received the survey invitation, please contact Clinical Faculty Affairs at ocfa.med@ubc.ca to update your contact information.

Why should I participate in this survey?

As part of the Faculty of Medicine’s commitment to enhancing equity and inclusion, the Clinical Faculty Equity Survey will enable the Faculty of Medicine to better understand the diversity of our 11,000+ clinical faculty and provide data for evidence-based decision making in support of inclusive working and learning environments now and in the years ahead.

How is my privacy being protected?

The information you provide in this survey is collected under the authority of section 26(a) and (c) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, and will be treated in the strictest confidence. All individual survey data collected is confidential, analyzed anonymously by the UBC Equity and Inclusion Office, and survey reports will be presented with aggregated data only. You will not be identified by name, nor will any of your details be shared with your current or prospective colleagues, managers, supervisors or department heads/school directors.

Learn more about how your personal information is stored and analyzed on the Equity & Inclusion Office website.

Is it possible to identify and link my responses back to me?

Only aggregated data will be reported. Responses to the survey are completely confidential — no individually identifiable information will be shared with leadership, management or human resources.

I previously completed an equity survey from my home academic unit (department, school, division or program), do I also need to complete this survey?

We know that some academic units have collected their own equity survey data to inform strategies and initiatives within their units. Those surveys are specific to your academic unit and responses have not been shared with the Faculty.

This Faculty-wide survey will provide consistent data about the clinical faculty community across the Faculty and help inform our broader efforts towards creating inclusive working and learning environments.

I didn’t receive an email with the survey link, who do I contact?

If you did not receive an email with your personalized survey link, please email Clinical Faculty Affairs at ocfa.med@ubc.ca to update your contact information. Your survey invitation will be resent to the provided email address.

I’m having technical issues with the survey, how do I get help?

If you are having technical issues with the survey, please contact Clinical Faculty Affairs at ocfa.med@ubc.ca.

Who can I contact if I have questions or comments?

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Clinical Faculty Affairs at ocfa.med@ubc.ca.


Wall Fellowships & Awards

The newly-launched Peter Wall Legacy Awards advance research excellence at UBC. This suite of awards represents one of the largest internal award programs at any university in North America.

The awards will initially focus on scholarly activity and research in British Columbia relating to sustainability in the areas of urban development, water, energy, transportation infrastructure, environmental protection of oceans and waterfronts, and resource-intensive industry. The suite of awards will support the research activities of tenure-track faculty members at all stages of their career, as well as Master’s and doctoral students.

The Wall Legacy Awards program is comprised of two types of awards:

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Wayfinding & Parking

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UNBC General Information:

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Meeting Rooms

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Strategic Plan in Action: Read the mid-term report

A message from Dermot Kelleher, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health.


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When we created the Faculty of Medicine strategic plan, Building the Future: 2021–2026, we were uncompromising in our vision of what we would strive to achieve together as a faculty. We set the bar high with the understanding our ambitions as researchers, educators, learners and staff must be equal to the many challenges we face — and must begin always with the most vulnerable people and communities. This vision, transforming health for everyone, informs every aspect of our work.

Now that we have reached the plan’s midway point, it is time to reflect on all that we have accomplished so far, and I’m pleased to share with you a snapshot of some of our incredible work to date, in the form of the Strategic Plan in Action.

In this special report, you’ll read about how we have expanded our education and training programs to create more opportunities and more supports for current and future learners, especially those from Black, Indigenous and other underrepresented communities.

You’ll read about how we’re accelerating the translation of breakthrough scientific discoveries into lifesaving treatments, and how we are expanding clinical and biomedical research capacity in northern British Columbia.

We have also come together to tackle health inequity and combat the complex and evolving impacts of climate change on health, with programs like the Drone Transport Initiative, which helps to safeguard healthcare in rural, remote and Indigenous communities against disruption from wildfires, floods and other hazards.

We have strengthened our relationships with international, national and local partners, collaborating with organizations such as the Rural Coordination Centre of B.C. on virtual health initiatives that strengthen emergency and specialist care in rural and remote areas and provide support to resident doctors training in these communities.

And through programs such as the Indigenous Speaker Series and the Disability in the Workplace workshops, we have taken important steps toward transforming our culture, creating learning and work environments where all people feel valued and respected.

These are just a few examples among many. The scope and breadth of our work is truly extraordinary, and would not be possible without the energy and dedication of all of you — the administration teams, faculty, clinical faculty, researchers and learners.

As I look back on the past three years, I am inspired by the ingenuity, compassion and collaboration on display across our Faculty each and every day. Our many successes testify to our strengths as a province-wide medical school and national and international leader in biomedical innovation — and validate our vision of transforming health for everyone.

Of course, we still have much to accomplish in the final two years of the plan. Guided by our vision, values and goals, and contracts with society and ourselves, we must continue to work together, to be bold, and to place the patient at the centre of everything we do.

Together, we are saving lives today and improving health for tomorrow — in B.C., Canada and around the world.


This message was sent to all faculty, staff and learners in the Faculty of Medicine.

Workday Student update: Student access

In fall 2023, the Integrated Renewal Program – Student (IRP Student) began rolling out Workday Student, a renewed, reliable, and secure student information system to support UBC’s academic mission. Workday Student will replace UBC’s current student information system, connecting UBC’s HR, Finance, and Student systems in a single, configurable, and easy-to-use application.

As part of the ongoing phased launch of the new system, starting from May 21, 2024 students will have access to Workday Student for academic administrative tasks related to the 2024 Winter session onwards.

The current student information system will remain in use for activities related to 2023 Winter and 2024 Summer sessions.

Teaching faculty & instructors

Teaching faculty and instructors will have access to Workday Student based on individual assignment to 2024 Winter course sections.

No action is required in Workday Student by teaching faculty and instructors until after student registration for 2024/25 course sections begins in June 2024. Find more information and resources for teaching faculty & instructors.

Resources & contact

Explore resources on the Integrated Renewal Program – Student website:

If you have questions about the rollout, please contact the Faculty of Medicine IRP Student Team at med.IRPStudent@ubc.ca.

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Dr. Corinne Hohl appointed Head, Department of Emergency Medicine

A message from Dermot Kelleher, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health.


I am pleased to announce that Dr. Corinne Hohl has been appointed Head, Department of Emergency Medicine, effective to June 30, 2029.

Dr. Hohl is a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and an associate member of the School of Population and Public Health. She is also a scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation and an emergency physician at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Hohl’s research focuses on emergency medicine, patient safety, health systems innovation and trial design. In 2020, she became the Chair of the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network, which informed the pandemic response and became the largest active research network in the history of emergency medicine in Canada.

Dr. Corinne Hohl

In recognition of her research work, Dr. Hohl has received a UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award, a Michael Smith Foundation Health Research Health Professional-Investigator Award, and the Dr. Ian Stiell Researcher of the Year Award from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. She has also received the Teacher of the Year Award from the UBC Royal College Emergency Medicine Training Program, and the Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Mentoring Early Career Faculty.

In her role as Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Hohl will engage with emergency physicians, practicing clinicians, trainees, patient partners and healthcare leaders from across British Columbia to strengthen the emergency medicine community, and the department’s education, research and innovation programs. She will build upon existing collaborations and partnerships while fostering new opportunities to implement a learning health system and facilitate impactful inclusive patient-oriented research and quality improvement to accelerate knowledge translation and innovation.

Dr. Hohl’s appointment follows the interim co-leadership of Drs. Roy Purssell and John Tallon. I wish to thank Drs. Purssell and Tallon for their significant contributions and dedication to supporting the Department over the past three years.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Hohl on her appointment.

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