The Boon Docs: No Trespassing
About the Boon Docs: The Boon Docs is a comic about practicing medicine in a small town. It's about raising chickens and having sheep instead of a lawnmower. It's about being nice to your neigh...
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A 5-minute drill with Health Emergency Management
How would you respond in an emergency? Tough one to answer, isn’t it, especially as emergencies can vary so much. Many of us probably remember doing fire or earthquake drills in elementary school, b...
Robson Valley communities opt for virtual health care to improve rural emergency services
Telemedicine technologies such as real-time videoconference consultations are enabling rural health practitioners to deliver improved emergency health care in the Robson Valley. Dr. Ray Markham, a ...
Happy 100th birthday to the Auxiliary to UHNBC!
Have you ever had the pleasure of celebrating a 100th birthday? I’m lucky enough to say I have – not once, not twice, but three times in my life! The first centennial I attended was about four ...
Clinical simulation helps nursing school instructors provide better training
For health sciences students, clinical simulation is an important part of learning. It lets them practice on realistic mannequins known as simulators without risk to patients. And of course, their ins...
UNBC PhD student awarded national fellowship to study stroke care
UNBC PhD candidate Daman Kandola was recently awarded a 2018/2019 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health System Impact Fellowship (HSIF). She’s one of only three PhD fellows in BC, and...
We did it for the gram
That’s right! Northern Health now has an Instagram account. Why Instagram? Instagram is the perfect place for us to show off photos of our amazing region, our super talented staff, and, of cou...
