Faculty of Medicine Vision: Transforming Health for Everyone
Mission
Who we are: The UBC Division of Critical Care is a collaborative and multi-faceted academic division with provincial scope and global reach.
What we do: We provide:
- Culturally safe and quality-driven clinical care;
- Inclusive and transparent academic leadership;
- Innovative and collaborative basic, clinical, and health services research in many areas including sepsis, respiratory failure, extracorporeal life support, and neuro-critical care”
- Critical care education across the continuum.
Who we do it for: We serve the diverse populations of British Columbia and beyond, providing the best critical care possible to patients and communities along the continuum of care in quaternary, tertiary, regional, community and rural and remote settings.
Our Goals
Clinical Care:
- Promote a sustainable career in critical care delivery for a diverse group of practitioners that is representative of the people we serve*.
- Partner with other critical care organizations in leadership and delivery of quality clinical care that is inclusive of all communities
Academic Leadership:
- Expand our membership to be inclusive of the critical care leadership and physicians practicing critical care across the Province of British Columbia
- Work toward a fully provincial ICU database and improvement network, governed by representatives from each health authority that fully integrates research, education and clinical care
- Attract and support the development of a diverse community of critical care practitioners that is representative of the people we serve*.
Research
- Create an inclusive and collaborative research hub with global reach
- Mine the power of the database to track critical care outcomes of patients from all of our communities including our rural, remote and Indigenous communities, and patients cared for by virtual care
- Strengthen divisional expertise beyond critical care
- Support our early career investigators
Education:
- Strengthening and expanding our education mandate
- Providing expertise in delivery of critical care across the continuum
- Providing an inclusive and respectful learning environment where everyone belongs and is representative of the people we serve*.
*The people we serve includes women, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour and people who identify with diverse genders, gender expressions and/or sexual orientations