This free, community-focused event brings high-level medical information into an easy-to-understand, informative day with doctors, surgeons, nurses and other health care staff presenting on interesting topics.
Are you itching to be the most effective change agent ever? Do you want to learn more about applying social movement and community organizing principles to the work you do? Are you keen to learn more about the latest digital and social media tools? If so, then the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council has the workshop for you!
Welcome to the Patient Voices Network! Everyone must complete an orientation in order to participate in engagement opportunities. The orientation will cover everything you need to know to be a member and answer any questions you may have.
After a century or so of social science dominance, neoclassical economists' claims about what motivates people and what makes systems work have been knocked off their pedestal. In the past 30 years, behavioural economics has challenged the rationalist, income-maximizing assumptions of standard economic theory. It turns out we are a species with hard-wired cognitive biases, […]
Book your spot now for the Releasing Time to Care Energizer Session! This will be a learning and networking day open to anyone involved in Releasing Time to Care. The goal will be to share experiences, ideas and learning across sites, grow your skills in key areas, and re-energize your team for its ongoing work moving forward. It will be a great opportunity to come together in person; we hope you can make it!
In both professional and personal contexts, conversations around death may be challenging. As public health professionals and communicators, how do we encourage effective dialogue? What tools and resources (such as documentary film) are available?
At our first ever Evening Rounds movie night, we'll be screening a timely and thoughtful documentary, For Dear Life, that tackles important conversations around death and dying through the story of theatre producer James Pollard, and his final years with terminal cancer.
Genome BC is pleased to welcome Sharon Terry from Genetic Alliance as 2017 Don Rix Distinguished Keynote speaker. Come hear the fascinating story of how this citizen scientist took the medical research community by storm when she forged a path to address the rare genetic condition that affects her children.
Welcome to the Patient Voices Network! Everyone must complete an orientation in order to participate in engagement opportunities. The orientation will cover everything you need to know to be a member and answer any questions you may have.
With rapid changes in access to health care information and health technologies, managing your chronic disease is becoming more collaborative and patient-centred. The Reaching Out with Arthritis Research (ROAR) public forum features a group of researchers from Arthritis Research Canada who are at the forefront of these changes. Updates on current research will be presented in a relaxed and informative series of talks for people with arthritis and those who care for them.
BC SUPPORT Unit is hosting its very first provincial conference! Putting Patients First: Partnerships for Better Health Research is designed to encourage learning and collaboration of patients interested in patient-oriented research, health researchers, health care providers and health care decision-makers.
