Useful information for Graduate Students in Pathology and their Supervisors.


Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Graduate Program Newsletter

For the Week of  April 11, 2022

PALM Student Representatives:

Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Committee (GPSC) - Madeline Lauener

PALM Curriculum Committee - Zeshuo Li Graduate Student Society - Saumadritaa Kar 

PALM Awards & Recognition Committee - Amirhossein Bahreyni

PALM Wellbeing Ambassador - Madeline Lauener (mlauener@alumni.ubc.ca)


Students

Announcements

Next Newsletter

The next Newsletter will be issued on Monday, April 25th, 2022 due to Easter Break.

Available TA Positions

The Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences is now accepting TA applications for 2022-23 Fall/Winter!

Please view the Job posting and application form. (Also available on our career page )

To apply for the positions, please complete and submit the application form to our administrator, Zaira Khan , ta.biocaps@ubc.ca .

A paragraph outlining your background and your transcript are also required if you have never TAed within the dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences.

You may indicate your course preference in your email. The application deadline is June 30th, 2022.


Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies :

GradUpdate  In this issue: Public Scholars Info session, Using theater scenes to discuss graduate supervision, Resiliency, Exploring the Education Literature, Designing for Transformation, P/T work opportunities, and more.


Focus Group Participants Wanted

Recently, many of you lent your voice to the G+PS project by exploring your experiences of mentorship as a racialized graduate student at UBC. G+PS thanks you for your time.

To elaborate on the G+PS survey findings, we would like to invite you to attend one of the G+PS focus groups:

April 12 5-6:30pm (On campus)

April 13 12-1:30pm (On campus)

RSVP here

Focus groups will be a one-time commitment of approximately 1.5 hours in duration. Refreshments and food will be served at in-person gatherings as a small token of appreciation for your time.

G+PS hopes you will consider lending your voice once more to the research as G+PS works towards further understanding the mentorship needs and realities of racialized graduate students. It is G+PS' hope to use these findings to support more effective mentorship of our students and to amplify the value of ethnic/racial diversity at the core of graduate education.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact: Negar Khodarahmi at negark@student.ubc.ca .


Deadline Reminder for Spring 2022 Graduation

Friday, 22 April – Acceptance of final, approved master's theses and doctoral dissertations by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies AND last day to apply to graduate for May 2022.

Deadline Reminder for August 31 2022 Program Completion

FRIDAY, 10 JUNE 2022 – Doctoral dissertation (and supporting documentation) submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for external examination

FRIDAY 5 AUGUST – Last Day for Final Doctoral Oral Examination

FRIDAY, 26 AUGUST – Acceptance of final, approved master's theses and doctoral dissertations by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies


Faculty of Medicine:

Student Health & Wellbeing

GPE Wellness Newsletter, 'The Breathing Room', has been released and can be accessed here .


Professional Development & Workshops :

VCHRI Education

Please join us for an informative workshop on “How to Effectively Communicate Your Science to the General Public ” on Wednesday April 27th , 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm . This session covers an overview of why science communication is important and how we can effectively communicate science to a lay audience. Our speakers will also focus on using Twitter as a platform to share and make an impact with your research.

SPEAKERS:

Kristina McBurney, Scientific Communications Manager, STEMCELL Technologies

Leanna Bedell, Social Media Manager, STEMCELL Technologies

DATE: Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

TIME: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Virtual via Zoom (Zoom link provided 2 days prior to the event)

For more information and to register for the event, please visit: https://www.vchri.ca/our-research/events


 

Pathology Day 2022

The Pathology Day Committee is planning to hold Pathology Day on Friday May 27, 2022. The event will be held in person at the Holiday Inn Vancouver on Broadway and Heather Street.

The link below will take you to the registration page for Pathology Day 2022:

https://pathology-payment.med.ubc.ca/pathology-day/

This year the Program will cover the cost of your PATH Day Registration  if you choose to attend the Canape/Awards portion and are not presenting (this is the only portion for which there is a fee). Any guests will be expected to pay.


Free Statistical Software

As a member of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine you are invited to use the statistical software JMPPro v16 from SAS institute. This software is made available for academic purposes only and is licensed annually. For more information on the capabilities of JMP, please see the website www.jmp.com . Interested parties must contact Steve Kalloger at kalloger@mail.ubc.ca to acquire the software.


Coordinator's Corner :

Mandatory Graduation Requirement - RCR Course

The Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Course is mandatory for all biomedical research graduate students within the Faculty of Medicine. It is offered three times each academic year and is comprised of two face-to-face sessions and an online component that is to be completed between these two sessions.

The online RCR course can be accessed at: www.citiprogram.org (registering under the University of British Columbia). Note: the online component is intended to be completed midway between the two face-to-face sessions. 

Registration for 2021-2022 is now closed. If you wish to inquire about course registration for the current academic year, please write med.research@ubc.ca .


Registration Open for PATH 521

PATH 521 (3 Credits) will be running at St. Paul's Hospital from June 7th to July 21st, 2022. The course syllabus can be viewed hereEmail Heather at  heather.cheadle@pathology.ubc.ca  if you would like to register.


New PhD Dissertation Examination Timeline

We have created a new PhD Dissertation Examination Timeline with an explanation of each step and links to the required forms here .


We are accepting feature photo submissions for upcoming newsletters! Email Heather with your photo at heather.cheadle@pathology.ubc.ca .


If you have changed your email address since the start of your Program, please email it to me to ensure you continue to receive Program Communications . Please also be sure to update your email in SIS to continue to receive important communications including awards notifications.


 Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Student Association (PaSA )

 President: Raelyn Gallant

 Vice President: Nancy Yang

 Event Coordinator: Theodore Lam

 External Affairs Coordinator: Madeline Lauener

Upcoming Meetings & Events:

PaSA invites everyone to join us at the meetings.

The next PaSA Meeting will be held on Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 5:00pm via Zoom:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63631399673?pwd=OUwrMEY3L0s0NEJjMjVqVnZhRndIZz09 

Meeting ID: 636 3139 9673
Passcode: 628541


PaSA is looking for individuals to take over the association as many of the current members will be graduating this year. We are looking for executive positions as well as general members. PaSA's main goal is to promote a sense of community in the graduate student pathology department. Being a part of your graduate student's association not only looks good on your CV, but also allows you to get to know more of the faculty and students that are within your research field. Below are some of the available positions. If you would like to take on a role please attend some of the meetings to familiarize yourself with the process.

Pathology Student Association Roles

President: ( approx. up to 4 hours per month)

  • Chair meetings
  • Prepares meeting minutes with a list of discussion points and circulates to other members prior to meeting
  • Oversees event planning and delegates tasks appropriately
  • Submit documents required for annual club renewal (May)

Vice President: ( approx. up to 4 hours per month)

  • Chairs at meetings in the absence of the president.
  • Plans, coordinates, and recruits' committees to manage a series of meetings and programs.
  • Coordinates programs with the president and the executive committee

Social Media Coordinator: ( approx. up to 4 hours per month)

  • Prepare flyers and promotional documents for events/meetings
  • Manage PaSA Facebook/ Twitter/ Instagram accounts
  • Coordinates with Heather Cheadle (Program Assistant) to ensure faculty members + graduate students receive appropriate emails

Event Coordinator: ( approx. up to 4 hours per month)

  • Ensure events run smoothly the day of, assigning roles and organizing volunteers
  • In charge of pricing out venues and additional costs for finance
  • Organize event details, decorations, seating plan, time schedule

External Affairs Coordinator (Supports VP of Finances): ( approx. up to 4 hours per month)

  • Emails companies to secure external funding (StemCell, Sigma, Zymeworks, etc.)
  • Ensures club and departmental logo appears on all event promotional items
  • Ensures GSS logo (or logo of any funding agency) appears on promotional items

VP of Finance: ( approx. up to 4 hours per month)

  • Applies for funning - GSS funding ($300/year), PALM funding ($1000/year)
  • Submit Event Fund Report ( GSS funding ) after each event
  • Forwards Heather Cheadle all receipts for reimbursement ( PALM funding )
  • Maintains records of donations, available funds, and expenses of social events
  • Advice on financial feasibility

Administration: ( approx. up to 4 hours per month)

  • Records meeting minutes and member attendance for each meeting
  • Prepare meeting minutes at end of the month to be put out to all of faculty/grad
  • Book rooms and event venues
  • Uploads documents to Google Drive/ ensures it has all records

General Members: (number of hours contributed chosen by member)

  • Helps with a variety of tasks – event planning, setup, promotion, etc

Supervisors

Supervisory Committee Composition

We want to remind you that when a PhD student is putting together their Committee, or a MSc student is transferring to PhD and must add an additional member, at least 50% of the student's committee (including the Supervisor) must be composed of G+ PS members. This may influence the number of members on any given PhD Committee, especially if the Supervisor is not a G+PS member.

For non-members we need to review a CV for the approval process by the Program which is followed by an application to G+PS in order to have them serve on a PhD Committee. One application must be made for each student committee.

When identifying potential members please also try to consider diversity within the committee.


Free Statistical Software

As a member of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine you are invited to use the statistical software JMPPro v16 from SAS institute. This software is made available for academic purposes only and is licensed annually. For more information on the capabilities of JMP, please see the website www.jmp.com . Interested parties must contact Steve Kalloger at kalloger@mail.ubc.ca to acquire the software.


Student Recruitment for May 2022 & September 2022

Please email the Graduate Program Coordinator at heather.cheadle@pathology.ubc.ca if you would like to be added to our Supervisors Seeking Students page on our website. Many potential students contact us for help with finding a supervisor, and this is their main resource.


Student Position Advertising

In September 2020 Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) launched a new service for the advertisement of faculty, graduate student, and postdoc positions through their websites (for graduate students and postdocs), and, if relevant, external career portals.

All faculty and staff are able to post any open positions at https://faculty-staff.grad.ubc.ca/recruitment/job-ads . Student positions will be advertised on grad.ubc.ca in the project directory and embedded into the G+PS researcher profiles . Postdoc positions will be advertised in the Postdoc Career Opportunities website.

If opted for in the posting, all faculty, student and postdoc posts will also be shared with external portals via system-to-system integration, requiring no additional work. These portals are included:

Nature CareersEurAxess  ; Mendeley CareersLinkedIn  ; jobRxivhandshakeTwitter


CTLT Teaching Workshops

Workshops on Teaching through CTLT can be found here , including; Individual Consultation with a Learning Designer About your Course, Teaching with Zoom, Getting Started with Canvas and more!