Request for Expressions of Interest for the New Residency Program's EDI Committee

** Sent on behalf of Dr. Irfan Khanbhai, PGE Program Director, UBC Department of Psychiatry **

Dear Faculty Members,

Our Psychiatry Postgraduate training program is creating an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Antiracism Committee.  

The broader goal of this committee will be to promote diversity, improve discrimination, engage in dialogue and help the program further cultivate respect for human rights and equity.  The hope is that this committee will build on the Program initiatives that have already begun as well as examine various aspects of the Program, including curriculum, clinical work, learning environments and culture, in order to further incorporate these principles.  

Once active, the Committee would decide on specific goals and objectives.  Likely this will involve an initial needs assessment process and eventually taking steps towards influencing change which may include evidence finding, education of both faculty and residents, and utilizing the principles of positive deviance and high leverage behaviours.  

The Committee will be comprised of 3 faculty members and 3 residents and in the initial stages, will be setting the terms of reference, meeting frequency and goals.  The Committee will also be supported by the PGME AEDI Committee in an ongoing manner as needed.  Faculty will be compensated for this work at the UBC Education rate.

If you have interest in being on this new Committee, please send your expressions of interest (which should include a short description of your background, interest, experience and vision for the committee) to myself at irfan.khanbhai@ubc.ca by Friday June 30, 2023.  If there are more than 3 faculty that would like to be involved, then a selections process will be undertaken that would involve a short interview.

Thank you for your consideration in this incredibly important endeavour.

Best regards,

Irfan

Dr. Irfan Khanbhai MD, FRCPC
Clinical Associate Professor
Program Director
UBC Psychiatry Postgraduate Education Program

I humbly acknowledge, with gratitude, that I live, work, and play as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations. 

Apple has addressed three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks to hack into iPhones, Macs, and iPads, so make sure you’re patched by updating to the latest software versions! (Go to Settings > General > Software Update.)

Even devices that already received a Rapid Security Response at the start of March 2023 have a zero-day still to be patched.

And all platforms have received many other security fixes for bugs that could be exploited for attacks as varied as: bypassing privacy preferences; accessing private data from the lockscreen; reading your location information without permission; spying on network traffic from other apps; and more.

After updating, you should see the following version numbers:

• watchOS: now at version 9.5
• tvOS: now at version 16.5
• iOS 15 and iPadOS 15: now at version 15.7.6
• iOS 16 and iPadOS 16: now at version 16.5
• macOS Big Sur: now at 11.7.7
• macOS Monterey: now at 12.6.6
• macOS Ventura: now at 13.4

Important note: If you have macOS Big Sur or macOS Monterey, those all-important WebKit patches aren’t bundled in with the operating system version update but are supplied in a separate update package called Safari 16.5.

Congratulations to Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Janel Casey, who has been named Runner Up for a 2023 Women of the Year Community Builder Award by BC Business! This award celebrates female leaders, innovators and difference makers who play a vital role in building better communities across the province.

This year, Dr. Casey is recognized for the many contributions she has made in her role as Fraser Health Regional Division Head for Adult Psychiatry & Royal Columbian Hospital Head of Psychiatry. These contributions include her heavy involvement in the redevelopment plans for Royal Columbian, the oldest hospital in BC, specifically in regard to its mental health building.

Congratulations once again to Dr. Casey on this wonderful recognition!

Read the full announcement here.

** Sent on behalf of Dr. Kathryn Fung, UGE Program Director, UBC Department of Psychiatry **

Dear Faculty:

We would like to invite you to teach our Year 2 Psychiatry Clinical Skills Sessions in MEDD 421 this fall (September, October, November, and December 2023).

We only require preceptors for Psychiatry 2 and Psychiatry 3.

Psychiatry 1 is as an online asynchronous module introducing principles of psychiatric interviewing and the mental status examination. Students will have protected time in the curriculum to complete Psychiatry 1 prior to Psychiatry 2 and Psychiatry 3.

The two preceptor-led sessions involve students interviewing a standardized patient (SP):

·         Psychiatry 2   SP Daniela (Anxiety)
·         Psychiatry 3   SP Ada (Depression)

Preceptors will be asked to complete a Workplace-Based Assessment (WBA) after Psychiatry 3 as the evaluation of each student’s performance in their group.  Each student group will have Psychiatry 2 and Psychiatry 3 over two consecutive weeks on the same day of the week, either on a Wednesday or a Friday.  If possible, we encourage you to select both consecutive sessions so you can teach the same group. Training materials are provided by the Clinical Skills program.

We need 4 tutors per day for optimal group size.

These sessions will be held in-person at the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre (DHCC), 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC on Wednesdays or Fridays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Compensation:

For each session, if applicable/eligible, preceptors are paid through TTPS:

$91.80 per hour X 4 hours = $367.20

This is based on 3.5 hours for teaching and an additional 30 minutes per session for marking as students submit case write-ups.

All preceptors participating in these teaching sessions should have a faculty appointment or an appointment in progress. If you do not, please contact us.

How to sign up:

If you’re interested please complete the Qualtrics survey at the link below to provide your availability by June 22, 2023:

https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3WY468UDmymwYC2

We appreciate your interest in teaching our students. If you need additional information, please contact Sarah Liu Year 2 Program Coordinator at y2.cs@ubc.ca

Dear Clinical Faculty Members,

On behalf of the UBC Department of Psychiatry, I am delighted to invite you to the Annual Clinical Faculty Dinner, to be held on Thursday June 8, 2023 at 5:00pm (after the Research Day event) at The Arbutus Club (2001 Nanton Ave, Vancouver BC). The dinner will be an opportunity to recognize and show appreciation to all our clinical faculty members and their many valuable contributions to the Department.

RSVP: To all clinical faculty members who wish to attend, we ask that you please confirm your attendance by RSVPing here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bp7urrz0YoRP6ei. Please kindly RSVP by the deadline of Sunday May 28, 2023 in order to be added to the Guest List.

Save the Date: Please open and save the attached iCalendar file to add the event to your Outlook calendar.

**Reminder: Anyone experiencing symptoms or feeling unwell should not attend.

Should you have any questions regarding the venue or event details, please feel free to reach out to Margaret Koshi at margaret.koshi@ubc.ca.

Sincerely,

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