FLEX Activity Day 2024
The Annual FLEX Activity Day will take place on January 29, 2024 from 1 to 5 pm.
Details:
1 – 2 pm – Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joshua Greggain, President of Doctors of BC (ALL SITES)
2 – 3 pm – Presentations from Y3 & Y4 FLEX Students (ALL SITES)
3 – 5 pm – Presentations from Y2 FLEX Students and Activity Supervisors (SITE SPECIFIC)
This year, we are honoured to have Dr. Joshua Greggain be our keynote speaker at FLEX activity day! Over the last 20 years, Dr. Greggain has been a family physician caring for rural, Indigenous and under-served populations. He is privileged to have spent most of his career in Hope and the Fraser Canyon, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Stó:lō, Yale and the Nlakaʼpamux Nations. In recent years, he has provided rural locums across the province and worked urgent care in Victoria, while serving as 2023 president for the Doctors of BC. Dr. Greggain graduated medical school from University of Calgary, after an undergraduate degree at SFU, and completed his UBC family practice residency in Chilliwack in 2005.
He is incredibly enthusiastic about family practice and personally understands the critical relationship between physicians as healers and guides, in order to walk alongside their patients, through health, wellness, birth, disease and death. While at Doctors of BC, he was a strong advocate for family medicine and is one of the physicians who helped to build the LFP model of care.
IMP Program Guide
NMP Program Guide
SMP Program Guide
VFMP Program Guide
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FLEX Activity Day 2023
The Annual FLEX Activity Day will take place on January 23, 2023 from 1 to 5 pm.
Details:
1 – 2 pm – Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katarina Wind (ALL SITES)
2 – 5 pm – Presentations from Y2/Y4 FLEX Students and Activity Supervisors (SITE SPECIFIC)
Dr. Katarina Wind (UBC FOM Class of 2020) is a Health at Every Size / Weight-Inclusive Care family physician and UBC MDUP Clinical Instructor in Vancouver. She developed Canada’s first curriculum in Weight-Inclusive Care for medical students; teaching them how to practice with an evidence-based, social justice-informed approach to body weight. She serves on the advisory board for the American Medical Students for Size Inclusivity and is currently supporting UBC FLEX students in creating their own club and podcast. Her clinical practice includes full-service primary care, hospitalist, and rural medicine. To learn more, you can check out her latest publication at: https://thischangedmypractice.com/why-i-no-longer-prescribe-weight-loss/
IMP Program Guide
NMP Program Guide
SMP Program Guide
VFMP Program Guide
The 7th Annual FLEX Activity Day was held on January 24, 2022. The event included included a keynote address by Dr. Courtney Howard, an Emergency Physician in Yellowknife’s Dene Territory, a Clinical Associate Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, a Community Research Fellow in Planetary Health at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, and Past-President of the Canadian Associate of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), followed by activity supervisor and student presentations on FLEX projects.
The 6th Annual FLEX Activity Day was held virtually, via Zoom, on January 25, 2021. The virtual event was a great success and included a keynote address by Stephen McCarthy on the topic, ‘A Journey in Virology: How Past Virus Outbreaks Teach us About SARS-CoV2.’
The 5th Annual FLEX Activity Day took place on January 27, 2020 and included a keynote address by Dr. Nadine Caron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Caron), and student and FLEX Activity Supervisor talks and poster presentations at sites.
FLEX Activity Day was hosted on January 28, 2019 and was attended by faculty, students and supervisors. Keynote speaker, Dr. Allen Eaves, spoke to students across the province via videoconference. Following this each site (IMP, NMP, SMP and VFMP) held their own local event consisting of poster presentations and student and supervisor talks.
FLEX Activity Day was hosted on January 22, 2018 and was attended by faculty, students and supervisors. The highlight of the even was a keynote lecture “The Role of Scholarship for Clinical Practice” by Dr. Michael Klein. Following the lecture, there were site specific events at each of the distributed sites (IMP, NMP, SMP and VFMP). At VFMP, there were student and supervisor talks/presentations, followed by posters and networking session. There were student prizes for talks and presentations at VFMP.
| Talk and Poster Presentation Winners (VFMP) | |
|---|---|
| MEDD 429 Student – 3 minute talks | |
| Ian Ruiz | Minocycline Reduces the Severity of Cardiovascular Dysfunction after Experimental Spinal Cord Injury |
| MEDD 429 Student – 1 minute talks | |
| Devon Mitchell | The Safety Evaluation of Car Seat Usage and Restraint system in the ED (SECURE) Study: A Summer at SickKids |
| Radhika Shankar | Investigating the Experiences and Challenges of Menstruation among Female Youth Attending the Vancouver Native Health Clinic in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside |
| Bohan Hans Yang | Management of Low Grade Gliomas |
| MEDD 429 Student Posters | |
| Karina Chornenka | Endothelial Function in Femoral Artery is Improved with Long-term Passive Exercise after High-thoracic Spinal Cord Injury |
| Valerie Lai | Vancouver Costal Health Hepatitis C Treatment Program Prospective Cohort Study |
| Emilie Russell | Regional Brain Atrophy Differences and Relationship to Disability in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and Multiple Sclerosis |
Supervisor Tables (VFMP)
Poster Review (VFMP)
