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.
Students Projects 2025
Aria Rezapour, Y4 UBC FLEX Med
Developing an evaluation of QR codes and rapid discharge sheets in BC EDs
Hayden Pon, Y4 UBC FLEX Med
Large Language Models in Emergency Medicine: A literature review
Jonah Hartel, Y4 UBC FLEX Med
A Decision Making Framework for incorporating Patient Feedback into Clinical Resources
Nick Sanchez, Y4 UBC FLEX Med
Disaster Planning and Preparedness
Tyler Tam, Y4 UBC FLEX Med
The Impact of ED Diversions on EHS, Patients, Providers, and Communities
Sonia Kandola, Y4 UBC FLEX Med
Building and Strengthening Frostbite Care in BC
Samara Reyes, Y4 UBC FLEX Med
Alcohol Use Disorder In Emergency Departments in BC: Developing a methodology framework for an environmental scan of ED management practices
Maddy Hart, Y2 UBC FLEX Med
What criteria determine the effectiveness of educational resources among practicing health care professionals?
Wongel Bogale, Y2 UBC FLEX Med
Defining and Identifying Vulnerability at Discharge: Key Considerations and Approaches in the Emergency Department (ED)
Jenna Benbaruj, Y2 UBC FLEX Med
Optimizing EMRs to Support Effective Patient Discharge from the ED
Emily Kotulla, Y1 UBC FLEX Med
Enhancing Emergency Department (ED) Supports for Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
Mitchell Wiens, Y1 UBC FLEX Med
Provincial and National Survey of AI in Emergency Departments: What is ECBC’s Role?
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
FLEX Project Plans
For FLEX Project Plan templates for MEDD 419/429/449, visit the UBC FLEX Activity page.
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"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."
