Company Profile
UBC Faculty of Medicine
Company Overview
The University of British Columbia is Canada’s third largest university and consistently ranks among the 40 best universities in the world. Primarily situated in Vancouver, UBC is a research-intensive university and has an economic impact of $4 billion to the provincial economy.
The Faculty of Medicine at UBC, together with its partners including B.C.’s Health Authorities, provides innovative programs in the areas of health and life sciences through a province-wide delivery model. The Faculty teaches students at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels and generates more than $200 million in research funding each year. It is home to Canada’s first distributed MD undergraduate program.
Company History
The idea of establishing a provincial university in B.C. first came in 1877 from John Jessop, superintendent of education. He was concerned that local students would be forced to travel to other provinces and countries to get a university education. But other considerations occupied the attention of those responsible for building a new province and the matter of a provincial university lay dormant until the 1890s.
In 1890, the Provincial Legislature passed "An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia". Under terms of the Act, all graduates of any university in the Dominion resident in British Columbia became members of the University and constituted the first convocation. A committee struck at the first meeting of convocation drafted a series of amendments to the 1890 Act which were adopted and passed in 1891. Unfortunately, the "British Columbia Amendment Act" carried the seeds of its own destruction. One of its provisions required that a meeting of Senate be held within one month of the election of senate by convocation. After the June 1891 election of Senators the July meeting failed to produce a quorum. Consequently, no further action was possible under the 1891 Act and the first attempt to establish the University of British Columbia failed. On March 7, 1908 the BC Provincial Government passed "An Act to Establish and Incorporate a University for the Province of British Columbia".
Benefits
OUR TOTAL COMPENSATION PACKAGE
In a competitive market for talent, UBC understands that we must do more than simply recruit and retain highly skilled faculty and staff members. Your total compensation package at UBC includes not only your base salary, but your benefits package, professional development needs, pension and vacation, and more. Our total compensation package was designed to bring you a variety of programs and benefits that support your personal and professional goals.
BENEFITS PLAN HIGHLIGHTS
Our benefits plans are designed with the continuing health and well-being of our faculty and staff and their families in mind. UBC is proud to offer a wide ranging benefits plan that includes:
medical services plan coverage
extended health, emergency travel assistance (medi-passport), and dental coverage
employee and family assistance program
income replacement program (long-term disability)
basic life insurance
optional group life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
pension plan
leave entitlements (including sick leaves and Supplementary Unemployment Benefits during maternity, parental and adoptive leaves)
vacation.