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UBC Midwifery mourns the loss of Carol Hird, extraordinary midwife, educator, nurse, leader and human. We honour and celebrate her dedication and service advancing midwifery.
UBC joins midwives in British Columbia mourning the loss of Carol Hird, RM, and we celebrate her indefatigable work to establish legal midwifery in Canada. Carol completed courses of study in midwifery and nursing in England and worked as a midwife before emigrating to Canada in 1972. Carol worked in Fort Churchill before moving to […]
Mountain Equipment Co-op donates Outpost Duffel bag to all students attending the UBC Midwifery Program. Thank you MEC!
As expectant mothers seek alternatives to hospital births, midwives are in high demand. UBC’s Midwifery Program was looking for an easy-to-clean bag to transport midwifery equipment and supplies. All students attending the program received an MEC Outpost Duffle https://www.mec.ca/en/search?org_text=MEC%20outpost%20duffle&text=MEC%20outpost%20duffle.
Huge thanks to Sandy Chen, second year student, for working with Sehee Kim, the Marketing Lead for UNIQLO Canada Ltd. who donated 52,000 surgical masks to the Program!
We estimate this will cover the personal protective needs of all students for the 2020-21 academic year.
COVID-19 Update: UBC Midwifery Admissions Interviews 2020
MARCH 27th Update: Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic in BC, UBC Midwifery will now be holding Interviews on Saturday, April 18th only. The interviews will take place via video conference. Details to all invited candidates have been sent, with more to follow. For any questions, please contact Blake Dobie, Student Services Manager at blake.dobie@ubc.ca.
UBC Midwifery announces the Online Distributed Option in Midwifery Education (DOME) for 1st year students
The UBC Midwifery Program is excited to announce that beginning in fall term 2020, successful first year applicants from British Columbia who live outside of the lower mainland will have the option of joining a pilot cohort of students who will complete their first year classes online from their own communities. Applicants from rural areas […]
UBC Midwifery welcomes Dr. Shawn Walker, RM, PhD, as the 2020 Visiting Scholar
Dr. Walker is an internationally known lecturer on support of vaginal breech birth with more than 15 publications related to breech birth. Dr. Walker is currently a lecturer at King’s College London, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing. Dr. Walker will present workshops in Victoria and Vancouver along with two public lectures in Vancouver.
Global Health Trainee Grant
Due by: January 31, 2020 at midnight, PST The Centre for International Child Health and the Medical Staff Association of BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital are working together to support trainees in health professions who are engaged in global health with clinical activities related to the health care of neonates, children, adolescents, or women. Funding […]
Congratulations to Dr. Saraswathi Vedam on the acceptance of her thesis “Moving from Interprofessional Disarticulation to Transformative Dialogue and Action…”
Congratulations to Dr. Saraswathi Vedam on the acceptance of her thesis “Moving from Interprofessional Disarticulation to Transformative Dialogue and Action: Examining a Transdisciplinary Process to Address Equitable Access to High Quality Maternity Care in North America” by the University of Sydney, Australia, toward the award of her Doctorate in Philosophy. The thesis brought together the […]
Class of 2022 Victoria cohort celebrates the end of Term 1!
Photo from Left to Right; Olivia Vihant, Annie Passmore, Raven Fawkes, Tay Ferrier, Katia Haslam, Jennifer Jackson, Julie Bowser, (Valerie Simmons – Island Lead), Melissa (Devi) Garner
Call for Expressions of Interest in Teaching
The UBC Midwifery Program is looking to build our pool of Clinical Faculty who are interested in teaching in the Undergraduate or Internationally Educated Midwives’ Bridging Programs.
2019 UBC Midwifery Alumni and Preceptor Reception
The 2019 UBC Midwifery Alumni and Preceptor Reception was held at the Halifax Westin Hotel during the Canadian Association of Midwives Conference. Fifteen alumni, clinical faculty members and midwifery faculty attended the reunion. Although most UBC Midwifery alumni still work in BC, many are rural and remote making the annual CAM conference a special reunion. […]
UBC Midwifery welcomes Dana L. Solomon, PhD, KT Researcher, to the BirthPlace Lab
Dana Solomon has both an MA and PhD in interdisciplinary studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between entertainment and ideology and the ways in which entertainment can be used to facilitate communication about complex problems. Her research interests include ideologies of genocide and international conflict, knowledge translation, and the impact of bias within the […]
UBC Midwifery welcomes Dr. Mimi Niles to the Birth Place Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow
Mimi Niles, PhD, CNM, MPH, is a full-spectrum midwife and a midwifery care researcher from New York City, NY. Her work explores the potential of integrated models of midwifery care in creating health equity in historically disenfranchised communities. Her research has been generously funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health – a […]
Courtney Broten has received the Canadian Association of Midwifery Educators Excellence in Teaching Award for 2019
This award is given to one Canadian midwife annually. The nominee must demonstrate evidence of teaching effectiveness, teaching innovation, excellence in curricular design, student engagement and exemplary mentorship. Courtney was nominated by several faculty members and enthusiastically supported by the UBC Midwifery Student Association. As a former Master of Health Professions Education Canada student with […]
UBC Midwifery celebrates the 2019 Internationally Educated Midwives Bridging Program Class Completion
From the left:Sora Colvin, Jane Wines (IEMBP Lead), Eline Vonk, Hannah Goto, Laura Mathias Front row:Mary Otoo, Rachel Wardel
UBC midwives give record number of presentations at Canadian Association of Midwives Conference in Halifax, October 22-25, 2019
Six UBC Midwifery faculty members and a student delivered 6 oral presentations at the annual Canadian Association of Midwives Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the week of October 22, 2019. Cathy Ellis, Mixed Methods Research: Midwifery Services and Culturally Safe Birthing Practices in Remote Nepal Jane Wines for Hamideh Bayrampour, Perceptions about Cannabis Use […]
UBC Midwifery students at Canadian Association of Midwives Conference in Halifax, October 22-25, 2019
At left are fourth-year students Juliette Mudra and Charlotte Grant, both recipients of the first Elaine and Ken Carty Midwifery Student Leadership Award. Sarah Jane Steele joins Charlotte at the right. Juliette, from Nova Scotia, plans to return to add to the 6 Nova Scotian midwives growing practice there. These 3 UBC Midwifery students joined […]
Congratulations to Dr. Zoe Hodgson, UBC Midwifery’s newest Clinical Assistant Professor!
Dr. Hodgson was a 2018 Stollery Research Grant recipient and led a team that studied the outcomes of midwifery-attended water births. Her promotion to Clinical Assistant Professor will enable her to apply for research funding as a principle investigator.
UBC Midwifery welcomes the Class of 2023!
20 new undergraduate students met each other, faculty and staff on September 3rd. They opened the day by writing a word or symbol on a rock that expressed their hopes and wishes for their midwifery studies and future midwifery practice. The words included patience, optimism, compassion, faith, resilience, balance and growth. We wish these all […]
UBC Midwifery welcomes midwifery, nursing and obstetrical delegates from across India sponsored by JHPEIGO and the Gates Foundation
Following the international Women Deliver Summit in Vancouver, delegates will meet with UBC faculty for two days to discuss upscaling midwifery in all 39 Indian states and territories.
Saraswathi Vedam receives her professorial gown from Dean Dermot Kelleher on May 14, 2019
Dr. Vedam is UBC’s first full Professor of Midwifery.
Cathy Ellis, MSc, RM, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on May 3, 2019
Cathy’s research examined Factors Affecting the Use of Midwifery Services in Remote Nepal. Congratulations, Dr. Ellis!
Congratulations Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour and team on their #1 ranked $125,000 CIHR grant: Perinatal Cannabis Exposure and Early Developmental Outcomes
Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour’s application for a Canadian Institutes of Health Research catalyst grant was ranked #1 of 115 submissions in the Cannabis Research in Urgent Priority Areas pool. This year-long award of $125,000 will enable Dr. Bayrampour to initiate her study, “A pilot prospective cohort study to examine the prenatal cannabis exposure and early developmental […]
Virtual International Day of the Midwife
Saturday, May 4th at 3 PM PST to 3 PM on May 5th, International Day of the Midwife. Join us for 24 hours of free online conversation and education about midwifery from midwives around the world. For more information go to https://vidm.org/
Charlotte Grant, Lana Barbir and Cecilia Jevitt represent BC midwifery at the January 27-29, 2019, Provincial Health Partners’ Planning Retreat
Cecilia Jevitt and midwifery students Lana Barbir and Charlotte Grant represented UBC and BC midwifery at the January 27-29 Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat in Vancouver. The retreat was co-sponsored by the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, First Nations Health Authority, the Province of British Columbia Ministry of Health, and the Doctors of BC. […]
Congratulations Professor Saraswathi Vedam
The UBC Midwifery Program congratulates Dr. Saraswathi Vedam on her promotion to Professor. Dr. Vedam is internationally renowned for her work in shared decision making, informed choice in health care, respectful care and home birth. She directs the BirthPlace Lab at UBC, a hub of international midwifery and women’s health research.
November 13th, 6-8 pm, VPL Downtown Branch: Book Launch! Personal & Political: Stories from the Women’s Health Movement 1960–2010
Personal and Political details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the “second wave” women’s health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women’s bodies, created women-centered spaces and services, and challenged a medically dominated health system. Feminists challenged diagnoses, treatments, laws, policies, and research, as well as the care women were […]