UBC FLEX Activity
About Emergency Care BC
Emergency Care BC (ECBC) is a PHSA Health Improvement Network that aims to optimize patient health outcomes, improve the quality and coordination of services and enhance experiences for patients, families, and providers requiring emergency care services. Our work crosses clinical and operational practice and is informed by deep, pan-provincial collaborative relationships.
If you’re a UBC faculty member interested in being a FLEX Emergency Medicine Preceptor to a FLEX Student, click here.
About ECBC’s Clinical Resources Program
Based on BC’s emergency provider and patient needs, ECBC leads or supports a variety of project across to improve emergency care across the province. FLEX students will have the opportunity to:
+ Explore ongoing supports and approaches to providing high-quality and accessible content for emergency care practitioners, patients and their caregivers.
+ Support initiatives aimed at addressing and improving care coordination and delivery.
+ Support scale and spread of implementation activities resulting from promising quality improvement initiatives.
FLEX Student Experience and Benefits
+ Work with providers and/or patients to develop a variety of materials for emergency departments.
+ Research evidence-based best practices on various medical topics.
+ Synthesize knowledge into a concise, easy-to-read format for busy emergency care practitioners and patients.
+ Engage in the development of a successful Learning Health System at ECBC.
What to Expect
Details
Students engaged in FLEX initiatives with ECBC will join the team in the following activities:
+ Collaborate with partners, health decision-makers, patient partners, providers and others to contribute to project activities underway.
+ Initiate or contribution to literature reviews and environmental scans to better understand a health care issue.
+ Lead interviews with experts, patient partners, providers and others invested in improving emergency patient health outcomes, provider experiences and system-level solutions.
+ Review materials for patient partners to ensure they’re accurate, up-to-date and engaging.
+ Develop communications tools to support patients, providers and administrators.
Timing and Capacity
Spots fill up quickly and are on a first come, first served basis. To apply, contact Dr. Julian Marsden, Clinical Resources Program Lead at ecbc.flex@phsa.ca.
For a schedule of upcoming FLEX dates, visit the UBC FLEX Course Overview page.
Supporting Documents
Clinical Summary Templates
The template below is used to complete Clinical Summaries on clinical topics.
FLEX Project Plans
For FLEX Project Plan templates for MEDD 419/429/449, visit the UBC FLEX Activity page.
"Writing clinical summaries for ECBC is a wonderful way to learn about a new topic in medicine or consolidate knowledge you have already gained. As future clinicians, we will be tasked with reviewing literature and keeping up with the evolving medical guidelines. This FLEX activity allows us to do so while collaborating with experts in emergency medicine."
– FLEX Student
“Working with ECBC on my FLEX project has been a worthwhile and rewarding experience. We get to work directly with physicians in the field to develop a systematic and evidence-based approach to common clinical encounters. It's a great project to help with the transition from your pre-clinical to your clinical years in medicine. I feel very supported by the team and would highly recommend this project to other students."
