The Global Initiative for Village Empowerment (GIVE) was created in 2006 by a group of UBC students with the goal of bringing HIV/AIDS education to the community of Kanyawegi, Kenya. The... Read More

Norman Jefferis “Jeff” Holter was a pioneer in the field of ambulatory electrocardiography, and the inventor of the portable cardiac telemetry device that bears his name and is used worldwide to this... Read More

When discussing the distributed sites of the University of British Columbia’s Medical Undergraduate Program, people are generally focused on three areas of interest: the number of family doctors... Read More

A finding of monoclonal gammopathy (M-spike) becomes increasingly common with patient age. The presence of monoclonal protein (M-protein) is found in approximately 3% to 4% of those over age 50, 5%... Read More

Privileging is the process used to request, review, and grant a practitioner permission to undertake defined activities in a specific facility. It is a cyclical process that involves a review of... Read More