The UBC Department of Psychiatry will be funded yearly for 1 Re-entry Residency Position in Psychiatry for the 2025/2026 academic year.
This re-entry residency position comes with a 3-year Return of Service (ROS) contract with the Ministry of Health. This year, the ROS is anticipate to be completed in the Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia.
The application deadline for 2025/2026 is January 13, 2025. Please review the full posting for this position for additional information regarding eligibility requirements and the application process.
For full details on the ROS commitment, please see the re-entry ROS contract templates and policy available on the Ministry of Health’s Re-entry webpage. Training for the Fraser ROS position will occur in the Fraser Psychiatry PGE Track for PGY2 and 3 with years 4 and 5 being flexible for elective training opportunities anywhere in the province, in Canada and even abroad if approved.
With 2024 drawing to a close, I wish to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to each of you for your many valuable contributions, and celebrate our remarkable achievements this year as a department.
The targets outlined in our 2020-2025 Strategic Plan guided us through half a decade of growth and served as reliable benchmarks to measure our successes. I am delighted to note that as we approach the end of this plan and begin preparing a refreshed 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, we can confidently say we have achieved most of the concrete goals that were set before us. This is a testament to our collective dedication, focus and hard work.
As we look forward, we remain committed to expanding our research capacity at UBC Vancouver and across our distributed sites, and have recruitments in progress in the areas of Concurrent Disorders, Data Science, as well as in the Northern Medical Program, Fraser Program and Vancouver Island. Building on our 2023 momentum, we launched a second successful round of our Stimulus Grant program and the seventh year of our IMH Marshall Fellows Program. On the educational front, we welcomed more Psychiatry postgraduate students for 2024/2025 into our programs than ever before, a trend we look forward to continuing into the future.
Additionally, the 2023 departmental internal review, conducted by a panel of FoM reviewers, presented a valuable opportunity for us to track our many milestones over the last several years, reflect upon the state of the Department, and take a closer look at the opportunities and challenges of our academic environment. In response, we have taken meaningful steps to address the recommendations, including the coalescing of the Resident and Faculty EDI Committees into a unified Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism (EDIA) Committee, establishing an Indigenous Strategies Committee, gathering feedback on the new website to continue improving the visitor experience, and conducting a Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students Mistreatment Reporting Survey, with a Resident Wellness Survey expected in the new year. Additionally, as we continue building clinical faculty support and engagement, we announced the redesignation of the VCH-PHC Regional Rounds as the UBC Psychiatry Grand Rounds beginning in January 2025, extending access to faculty across the province, and our Awards and Recognition Committee have established terms of reference and begun developing processes to identify and proactively promote faculty for nomination.
As you review this year’s highlights in our newsletter, I hope you share a sense of pride in our collective accomplishments. As I embark on my second term as Department Head, I remain indebted to our four Associate Heads and Executive team, who have been indispensable to our leadership team and, of course, to all of our outstanding Department members without whom our achievements thus far would not have been possible. With your continued engagement and ongoing support, I look forward to our continued collaboration in the years ahead.
Once again, I wish to thank you all and wish you a safe, happy and well-deserved rest this holiday season!
Dr. Lakshmi N. Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK), MBA (Exec) Professor and Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry Director, Institute of Mental Health, UBC Regional Head and Program Medical Director, VCH/PHC
The UBC Department of Psychiatry Administration Office respectfully acknowledges the land on which we live, work and play is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-waututh).
The UBC Psychiatry Festive Celebration was held on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, with another great turnout. It was wonderful to see so many faculty, staff, students, trainees and residents to gather together for a fun and relaxed evening. Thank you to all who attended!
View all the photos from the event in our UBC Psychiatry Flickr album
Dear Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students of the UBC Department of Psychiatry,
**As a reminder, please complete the UBC Department of Psychiatry Mistreatment Reporting Survey. All Department members are encouraged to complete the survey regardless of one’s personal experience with mistreatment.**
As you all are aware, the UBC Department of Psychiatry is committed to fostering inclusive, respectful, and safe work and learning environments that value diversity, and are free of harassment and discrimination. Any reported cases of mistreatment are taken seriously and addressed in the most appropriate manner while respecting privacy and confidentiality.
As a part of this commitment, the Department plans to conduct surveys and environmental scans of our work places on a periodic basis to get a better understanding of the prevailing culture and landscape in our programs and sites. The Departmental EDIA Committee, led by Dr. Andrea Tuka, has developed a Mistreatment Reporting Survey which provides an anonymous, confidential and safe space for Department members to report experiences of mistreatment and share open and honest views as they relate to reporting. This survey has been sent to Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students of the Department of Psychiatry. The Residents in our Post-Graduate Program will participate in the Resident Wellness Survey which will include similar questions related to mistreatment, to align with the survey for Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students.
We encourage you to participate in this survey which is conducted using Qualtrics; a reminder with the link to the survey was sent out at 12:00 pm on Monday, December 16, 2024, directly from the following address: noreply@qemailserver.com. If you do not see the email in your inbox, check your junk or spam folder. Please note that each survey link is unique and can only be used once. Please do not share or forward your link. The deadline to complete the survey has been extended until December 31, 2024.
We want to reassure you that survey responses are anonymous and will not reveal your identity. Data collected from this survey will be handled confidentially and will be used to inform and foster respectful work and learning spaces. A summary of feedback from the Mistreatment Reporting Survey will be shared with Department members.
If, at any time, you experience mistreatment in the workplace or you observe a co-worker being mistreated or harassed at work, please report the incident(s) to your immediate supervisor or contact your Administrator, Department Head, or your Faculty of Medicine HR Advisor.
Sincerely,
Dr. Lakshmi N. Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych, MBA Professor and Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry Director, Institute of Mental Health, UBC Regional Head and Program Medical Director, VCH/PHC
Dr. Andrea Tuka, CD, MD, FRCPC Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry Chair, EDIA Committee, UBC Department of Psychiatry LCol, Canadian Armed Forces
We respectfully acknowledges the land on which we live, work and play is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.
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Dear Entrada Faculty Users,
Entrada is experiencing an issue with the PIN used to complete EPA assessments. The cause has been identified, and the Digital Solution team is actively working on a fix.
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The UBC Faculty of Medicine is excited to launch a call for applications to the Sherrold Haddad Excellence in Medicine Award Program, which aims to support up to one clinician who holds a faculty position in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC and performs clinical duties at one or more of the following institutions: Surrey Memorial Hospital, Czorny Alzheimer Centre or Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre. This award provides essential salary buy-out funding and research support enabling recipients to dedicate more time to research aligned with Surrey Hospitals Foundation’s pillars of support.
