REDI Digest Guides: Inclusive Professionalism in Practice
In this first edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us webinar Inclusive Professionalism in Medicine (March 2025). It explores how professionalism is evolving from traditional norms toward more inclusive and relational approaches, highlighting key themes, including the impact of professional norms on historically, systemically, and persistently marginalized groups.
REDI Moments That Matter: Faculty & Staff Recruitment
In this first guide, we focus on Faculty and Staff Recruitment as a key moment that signals who is welcome and valued within a unit. The guide invites reflection on how recruitment practices shape culture, belonging, and retention long before someone joins a team, and how processes can either affirm or undermine stated commitments to equity and inclusion.
Research Voices from the Field with Cheryl Holmes
In this edition, Cheryl Holmes, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education and Clinical Professor of Critical Care in the Department of Medicine reflects on why she co-authored “Core Competencies for Students Entering Medical School: Reaching Pan-Canadian Consensus for Inclusive and Accessible Medical Education” — a must-read for leaders and educators seeking to embed disability justice into medical education.
Accessibility & Disability Inclusion Resources
Explore ways to better support and accommodate people with invisible and visible disabilities across our learning, research and clinical environments with this curated collection of resources. The collection features a TED Talk with Jennifer Brea about what it means to live with an invisible disability.
The ABCs of Compassionate Support
Explore trauma-informed strategies for supporting a learner or colleague, without overstepping boundaries or assuming their full story.
Research Voices from the Field with Faizal Haji
Faizal Haji, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the BC Children’s Hospital, Scholar at the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES), and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, reflects on why he co-authored “Defining a Framework and Evaluation Metrics for Sustainable Global Surgical Partnerships” with colleagues in the Branch for Global Surgical Care — a piece relevant to anyone interested in decolonization and global health equity.
Celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities by taking part in upcoming events
Join the Centre for Workplace Accessibility and the Equity & Inclusion Office in celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by attending two upcoming events: “AttentionMD: Bridging the Gap between ADHD & Medical Residency” on December 2 and “Academic Ableism and its Alternatives” on December 4.
Anti-Racism in Health Professions Education Modules
Developed to foster reflection, awareness, and action, these interactive self-paced modules explore how racism operates within health professions education. Through real-world scenarios, expert insights, and curated resources, learners examine anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism and build tools for more equitable teaching and practice. Completing all four modules takes about 2.5 hours and offers up to 2.5 CPD credits.
Call for Applications: Indigenous Stream of the CHES Clinical Educator Fellowship Program
CHES is now accepting applications for the Indigenous Stream of its learner-centred Clinical Educator Fellowship Program — a funded, two-year full-time (or four-year part-time) opportunity for Indigenous physicians and Indigenous ally physicians interested in developing skills in clinical education and shaping an Indigenous-informed vision of educational leadership. Applications are due Friday, December 12, 2025.
Research Voices from the Field with Rola Ajjawi
In this edition, Rola Ajjawi, Professor of Medical Education in the Department of Surgery and Associate Director (Research) at the UBC Centre for Health Education Scholarship, reflects on why she co-authored “Reflections on four theoretical perspectives of belonging” and how it can be relevant to medical education.