Heartfelt Images 2017
A message from Dr. Courneya on this year’s art contest!!: I am pleased to announce the return of “Heartfelt Images” for the classes of 2019 & 2020. With the new curriculum your cardio learning spirals throughout years 1 and 2. This contest invites you to conceptualize artistically your understanding of the cardiovascular system. Winners of […]
AiM Wine and Painting Night
What is more pure and blissful than sitting down to a blank canvas with an uninhibited mind? Last week a lovely group of art and/or wine enthusiasts sat down together and created some beautiful pieces of work. Classmates of all years attended and it was a full night of socializing, laughs, and impressive skills. If you […]
March Inspiration Injection
As a new administrator for this wonderful site I am excited to provide the Art Inspiration Injection for March. As many have heard, a huge congratulations must go out to the 4th year class for matching to CaRMS this week. Medicine is forever a journey with endless checkpoints and this is certainly one of the […]
The Hughes family is pregnant aka. how I used my PBL paper
Over the semester, puzzling my 4 perennial classmates, I have been collecting the separator sheets that come with the tutors’ packages. That and PBL cover sheets. In case you haven’t noticed, a colour-lover has been in charge of printing and has been feeding us a lovely array of hues. Well, I finally collected enough and went out today […]
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A thought on the Arts at UBC Medicine
I was fortunate to have $20 to get into the 21st Spring Gala yesterday night. Amidst all the wonderfully cheeky, geeky humour, the buzzword during the show was, undoubtedly, talent. I suspect that the word “talent” would have been use with the same frequency even if all the acts had bombed. Happily, all acts left the stage unscathed – […]
A look back forward
A self reflection piece for the White Coat Warm Art Exhibit, experimenting with different media and dimensions to portray dimensions of time and space. A young medical student looks towards the future with nervous anticipation. 20 years pass. She’s become an experienced physician, her slight smile says “if only she knew it would all be […]
Let the waves wash over you
I let the water colours flow off the paint brush as I sat on our porch breathing fresh ocean air, listening to the waves crash against the shore and reflecting on advice from my preceptor on how to approach the next couple years. Just take it all in, let it wash over you. Powell River, […]
Pain tolerance
This painting is from my rural rotation this summer. The first patient I saw during the elective was an individual with a partially ruptured Achilles tendon. S/he thought they had sprained their ankle and had been limping around for 3 days before coming in! Talk about pain tolerance..