THE LINK – OCTOBER 2013: Here are just some of the news and events of interest this month. For a complete list, visit MedNet – the Faculty’s intranet site at mednet.med.ubc.ca.
– Faculty Development: Call for Original Screenplays and Videos
– Call for Proposals: Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund
– Leadership Opportunities:
– Electives Director, MD Undergraduate Education
– Executive Medical Director, Continuing Professional Development
– Executive Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs
– Clinician Advisors – Academic Learning Community Pilots, Vancouver Fraser Medical Program
– Appointment Announcements
– New Funding Opportunities:
– Rapid Response: Neurodegenerative Diseases of Aging
– Quantitative Imaging Network Research Program
– Call for Applications:
– UBC Clinician Investigator Program
– Taubman Prize
– Heart & Stroke Foundation – Personnel Awards
– Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences
– Applied Public Health Chairs Program
– Call for Comments: Proposed New Policy: Policy #81 (Use of Learning Materials in UBC Credit Courses)
– Privacy & Information Security Training and Awareness Program
– Connected by Commitment Annual Report 2012-2013
October 3: Tuum Est: Leading Edge Medicine
October 7: Special Presentation by Drs. Alex and Hilit Mechaber, U of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
October 10: Work-Related Disability Webinar Series: A View from the Frontline – Practical Tips for Disability Management
October 15: Médecins Sans Frontières Recruitment Information Session
October 17: 2013 CHES Celebration of Scholarship
October 20 – 26: UBC Celebrate Learning Week
October 21: 2013 Gairdner Foundation Symposium
October 21: Ovarian Cancer Workshop for Family Physicians: Reversing the Classroom
October 22: “How to Publish in the Canadian Medical Association Journal”
SAVE THE DATE
November 14: Earl W. Davie Symposium
November 20: WordPress Training Session
November 25: Ovarian Cancer Workshop for Family Physicians: Reversing the Classroom
November 26: Full Faculty Meeting
May 5: Full Faculty Meeting
– Faculty members inducted to Royal Society of Canada
– Staff receive UBC President’s Awards
– Max Cynader to be inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
– Carolyn Gotay, Kendall Ho inducted to Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
– The disease of many faces
– Thousands of shades of grey
– Easing the pain
– Researchers sound warning over heart attack symptoms
– Fine-tuning HIV treatment
– A new opportunity to learn from others’ last days
– Lights! Camera! Learn!
– Faculty members awarded Arthritis Society grants
– Jacob Biely Research Prize | Internal deadline: October 8
– Charles A. McDowell Research Award | Internal deadline: October 8
– Graduate Student Awards | Deadline: October 11
– Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease | Internal deadline: October 18
– CIHR Fellowship | Internal deadline: November 8
– CIHR New Investigator | Internal deadline: November 25
– Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research | Deadline: December 13
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