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  • Rotary Club holds used musical instrument drive for Penticton kids

    PENTICTON - Aside from personal enjoyment and cultural growth, music education can make a transformative difference in a child’s intellectual and emotional development. Current neurosciences research has revealed a causal relationship between music training and brain fitness, both structure and function.
  • UBC celebrates 10th graduating class in the Okanagan

    OKANAGAN - Two major milestones in health sciences are being celebrated with Convocation 2015.
  • Nursing professor receives award of excellence from provincial body

    KATHY RUSH HONOURED FOR WORK DONE IN AND OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
  • Contractor named for RIH diagnostic imaging renovation

    KAMLOOPS – Interior Health is pleased to announce that Delnor Construction has been named the successful proponent for the renovation of a new multipurpose room in the diagnostic imaging department at Royal Inland Hospital.

    “This is but one more example of the many investments made in Royal Inland Hospital over the last five years to improve patient outcomes,” says Health Minister Terry Lake.
  • Student nurses, physicians solve emergency cases together

    Simulation lab provides health-care collaboration in a safe setting

    UBC Okanagan nursing and med students are training side by side for the first time.

    Medical students start work in the clinical setting in their third year, and this is the first, third-year class from UBC’s Southern Medical Program to have an opportunity to work in hospitals and clinics in BC’s Interior.
  • Visiting nurse researcher promotes integrated approach to patient care

    Care practices in U.K. focus on collaboration among health-care disciplines

    Professor of Nursing Research Kate Gerrish knows about teamwork. When it comes to developing collaborative approaches to patient care among health-care practitioners, she has influenced the development of national policy in the U.K.

    This week, Gerrish is a visiting scholar with UBC’s Okanagan campus School of Nursing.
  • Big White receives prestigious Canadian ski patrol award

    Kelowna, BC – Big White Ski Resort's new President Peter Plimmer is pleased to accept the national award for Outstanding Contribution to the CSP from Colin Saravanamutto, CEO of the Canadian Ski Patrol. This award is given to an individual or organization to recognize an extraordinary contribution to the Canadian Ski Patrol System. “It is very rare that a resort receives this award,” said Saravanamutto.

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