Undergraduate Medical Education

Wondering how many #EPAs a graduating #CanadianUME student should achieve? Check out our paper on this topic: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… We set achievement thresholds for the 12 @AFMC_e EPAs for graduating medical students using a modified delphi technique

Congrats to #UCalgaryMed Dr. Janeve Desy, MD, recipient of the 2023 CAME Meridith Marks New Educator Award, for her outstanding contributions to medical education! @JaneveDesy @yycMDs

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS! The Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) Rural Inspiration Award is given to a University of Calgary preceptor who has inspired students to consider rural training or career. The final day to submit nominations for a Rural Recognition Award is November 30

Continues to be fairly smooth sailing during this network upgrade, CARDs with a brief outage (5 minutes) yesterday. Thanks for everyone's patience, and for the hard work from @UCalgary_IT !

For those of you following along, we had an outage yesterday from 10 till just around 12. Expecting some additional outages over the next period.

.@yycMDs is hiring portfolio leads for the new pre-clerkship curriculum to oversee integration + emphasis on: - Caring for Diverse Bodies & Minds - Gender & Sexuality - Race, Ethnicity & Culture - Wealth & Health, Space & Place Applications due Nov 30! cumming.ucalgary.ca/mdprogram/facu…

UME's Irene Ma @irenema_yyc presented our work on Healthcare Resource Stewartship at the recent SimPosium conference - you can check out the poster presentation here: youtu.be/mEJktIjio9Y You can also play this deck and learn more about lab costs: cards.ucalgary.ca/deck/173

Congratulations to @UCalgaryMed 's very own Dr. Chris Naugler (@ChrisNauglerMD ) for his recent Leadership in Patient Safety & Quality Assurance Award from Canadian Association of Pathologists! mailchi.mp/cap-acp.org/co…

The @yycMDs just commenced the final year of our Undergraduate Medical Education curriculum re-design, known as Re-Imaging Medical Education (RIME). Get up to the latest on this exciting initiative in our July message. cumming.ucalgary.ca/sites/default/… @UCalgaryOHMES @UCalgaryMed

#UCalgaryMed student Catharine Bowman, BHSc'20, is continuing her academic journey as one of 70 new learners worldwide accepted in the prestigious 2022 @KnightHennessy scholars program offered by @Stanford. Read more here: ow.ly/hUL550J5wet

A team of medical students from #UCalgaryMed has co-designed a checklist to help patients better prepare for their appointment and bridge the gap between physician and patient expectations. Read more: news.ucalgary.ca/news/mind-gap-…

It's incredible to see thoughts & design taking shape before our eyes. Indigenous artist mentor, Sikomh Kokomii, is incorporating his knowledge of Indigenous wellness & health & landmarks of significance around Mohkinstsis into his mural work. @UCalgaryMed @CalgaryArtsDev

Recognizing @UCalgaryMed 's Dr. Jori Hardin and team: Medical schools are revamping their dermatology programs to better reflect skin of colour - Calgary Journal calgaryjournal.ca/2022/04/14/med…

So excited about this refresh to the amazing resource that is learnFM (learnfm.ucalgary.ca). Thanks to our faculty leads: @YYCKelly @drDavidKeegan and our design lead Tina Huynh.

@UCalgaryOHMES Lecture time wasn't equally distributed across 16 CSM clinical depts, nor are CaRMS seats offered, with a marked disproportionality between Family & DoM. Do events influence our students’ 1st choice of CaRMS disciplines? @irenema_yyc @JaneveDesy @ChrisNauglerMD

Join speakers from @csmengage in this virtual roundtable to learn more about the connection between education and community, and the community-engaged learning approach in #UCalgaryMed’s Undergraduate Medical Education program @yycMDs. Register: ow.ly/1uXU50I2Fjo

The CAME Foundation is happy to announce that the successful winner of the 2022 Learner Health Professions Education Grant is Priatharsini (Tharsini) Sivananthajothy, University of Calgary! #HPE #HPEGrants #MedEd @UCalgaryMed @UCalgary

Congratulations to @UCalgaryFamMed’s Dr. Martina Kelly! Recipient of the 2022 @AFMC_e Gold Humanism Award and Lecture – recognizing leaders and exceptional mentors in academic medicine who emphasize the importance of humanistic qualities within healthcare ow.ly/6ZGu50HxBsq

Congrats to #UCalgaryMed’s Dr. Theresa Wu, MD, Dr. Sarah Anderson, PhD, Dr. Gary Galante, MD! 2022 Certificate of Merit Award Recipients, promoting and recognizing individuals for their commitment to medical education in Canada. @GalanteMD @UofCr4kids @yycMDs @UCalgaryPeds

UCalgary teaching tool reaches learners worldwide ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-…