✨Meet DASH Trainee Miini Teng!✨ Miini is featured in our DASH Spotlight Series. She is the Data Science and Health 2023 Trainee Research Award Recipient. Learn more about her interests, research, and contribution to the community! Video here 👉 tinyurl.com/mr2ena6j

Are you concerned about climate change and do you like the arts? OSOT Assistant Professor Dr. Julia Henderson is seeking older adults and children for a study August 19-24 If you like, follow, or comment on this post the public will see this and may associate you with this study

D’HoPE is on its 3️⃣rd year👏🏼Led by Dr. Laura Yvonne Bulk, Dr. Tal Jarus (UBC OSOT) Dr. Nassim Adhami RN PhD (UBC Nursing),7️⃣ health profs have come together to “help equity-denied high school & undergrad students develop a sustained interest in a #HealthProfesssionsEducation program of their choice”.

What’s more fun than a snowball toss to get everyone talking about health professions UBCO School of Social Work UBC OSOT UBC Medicine UBC Nursing UBC Dentistry UBC Pharm Sci UBC Department of Physical Therapy?! Let the questions (& snowballs) fly! Thanks for leading the activity Kelly from UBC Social Work

UBCO School of Social Work UBC OSOT UBC Medicine UBC Nursing UBC Dentistry UBC Pharm Sci UBC Department of Physical Therapy UBC Social Work Day 1 of D’HoPE is done! 29 participants learned abt UBC Social Work & UBC Nursing. Thanks to my UBC Nursing colleagues Jill Mahy, Caitriona Buckley, Kalapreet Dhaliwal, & UBC IDEA Lab for hosting! One final THANKS to NNPBC for the swag & for sponsoring today’s lunch🙏🏼

A little #throwback Thursday to Foundry’s very first policy brief, Offering Walk-in Counselling as a Low-Barrier and Accessible Service for Youth. Explore how Foundry is transforming access to care by visiting foundrybc.ca/policybriefs/

Do you know any internationally-educated OTs who want to work in Canada? We have created a new program (PIE-OT) to help OTs complete the SEAS assessment (needed to show your competency and training). It's fully online, start from Sept onwards 🔜📆 >> bit.ly/pie-ot 🌏

⏰ There’s still time to register for our August 19 webinar, “Prioritizing Disability Inclusion in Health Research,” hosted by our youth research partners! Join us to learn how to make your research more inclusive and impactful: child-bright.ca/event-listings… #DisabilityInclusion

📣CAOT_ACE needs your voice!📣 When Budget 2024 extended Canada Student Loan forgiveness to health and social service professionals, occupational therapists were excluded. The letter template only takes a few minutes to complete & send📨 Act now >> bit.ly/46Mf9vI

Patient and public partners can influence how research is funded. They can help set funding priorities or review grant proposals. Learn more with our road map tool: bit.ly/bcsu-road-map

Announcing the winners of this year's Fieldwork Educator Awards! Fieldwork educators have a huge impact on trainees: building skills, confidence & OT thinking. Congratulations to the winners & a big shout out to fieldwork educators - thank you! 🎉💯 > bit.ly/3ArC0AR🏆

ICYMI: MOT graduate and current OSOT Clinical Instructor Miini Teng's research into the impact of climate change on human health, AI in health, and data science in a medical context was recently featured in a profile by UBC Data Science & Health Cluster (DASH) #OT365 datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca/news/march-03-…

It's been a busy summer! We were pleased to receive so much insightful & constructive feedback from surveys shared in May & July. We are now consolidating your feedback to help refine goals & identify actions. Check in on the plan's progress so far > bit.ly/4cB4GET 📬

Sara Bishop, CAOT-BC Regional Director, attended the Capstone Conference hosted by the Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) graduating class from the University of British Columbia (UBC) on July 23rd. CAOT_ACE UBC OSOT

As part of the development of our new Strategic Plan, Department Head Dr. Ben Mortenson is going across BC to meet local OTs, health administrators & anyone invested in the future of OT education & research (i.e. everyone😅) 📝Dates, locations & RSVP🍕> bit.ly/osot-future

This #SpinalCordInjuryDay, support researchers in enhancing patient care & recovery with evidence-based data. Explore studies on rehabilitation interventions & #ParticipateInResearch: vchri.ca/participate/di… #YesToResearch #LendAHand ICORD

Celebrate occupational therapy leaders! 🎉 Nominate worthy colleagues by December 1st- buff.ly/3W9l9eB Célébrons les leaders en ergothérapie! 🎉 Proposez la candidature de collègues d’ici le 1er décembre

If you are in Prince George tomorrow and want to discuss the future of occupational therapy in BC, join us for a pizza lunch at UHNBC, 12pm-1pm. We have a couple of spots remaining >> bit.ly/osot-future

A big welcome to the Class of 2026 🎉 'Intro Week' kicked off in style last week, with a traditional Indigenous Welcome event for the Vancouver & Surrey cohorts + a visit to the Stellat'en Wellness Centre for the Prince George cohort. A wonderful grounding for a new chapter🌱