Tips for graduate student selection
This tip sheet highlights common equity and inclusion hazards in recruitment and selection of graduate students and offers practical, evidence-informed strategies to avoid them. By using inclusive language, broadening how excellence is defined, reducing bias, and creating transparent, accessible, and humane processes, programs can attract a more diverse applicant pool and make fairer, more rigorous decisions that benefit students, programs, and the Faculty as a whole.
Braiding Accountability: A Ten-Year Review of the TRC’s Healthcare Calls to Action
Ten years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its Calls to Action, what has been achieved in healthcare? Explore this landmark report to learn more.
New Year, New You: REDI’s New Year Book List
Explore a compilation of books that have deeply inspired the REDI team in their work. Immersing yourself in the stories, lived experiences, and perspectives of individuals from various historically marginalized groups can foster empathy, understanding, and even aid in mitigating bias in your teaching and clinical practice.
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.
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. 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.
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.