Enjoy this healthy and delicious recipe for Chocolate Banana Muffins!
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Category: Wellness Blog
Join us at Resident Talent Night 2019!
Resident Talent Night, the UBC Resident Wellness Office’s most anticipated event of the year, will be taking place on Thurs. Sept. 26! Resident Talent Night celebrates the resident community’s many talents beyond medicine, including musicians, spoken word poets, singer-songwriters, dancers, martial artists, magicians, acrobats, comedians, and more. It’s also a chance to showcase resident photography, painting and […]
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Fitness and mental health: ultrarunners share how running helps them overcome past trauma and mental health disorders
Many people use fitness as a means to help manage their own mental health. Ultrarunners Amanda Basham, Meredith Edwards, and Kaci Lickteig discuss how they use their running to help battle their own experiences with eating disorders and past trauma. Jim Walmsley, one of the top ultrarunners in the world and winner of the recent […]
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Celebration of Canadian accomplishments in medicine
Happy Canada Day! Take a minute to reflect and celebrate valuable contributions Canadians have made to the medical field.
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Redefining impossible
Often residency training can feel daunting, overwhelming, and impossible. Running 100 miles can seem impossible too- until it isn’t. Watch Brendan Leonard and Jayson Sime, two normal guys, train and conquer Run Rabbit Run, a 100 mile endurance race in Colorado with over 20,000 feet of elevation gain. As narrator Brendan Leonard suggests, the mental […]
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Stinging Nettle Ice Tea Recipe!
Enjoy some Stinging Nettle Ice Tea as the heat and hot weather come!
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What is empathy?
Learn the difference between empathy and sympathy, and why empathy is important in creating a meaningful connection with others.
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How to minimize sleep dept and fatigue after night shifts
After a night shift, workers are generally highly fatigued and have and can accumulated a huge amount of sleep dept. Read ways that you can help mitigate negative effects of working night shifts on your sleep patterns and how to optimize your daily schedule to accommodate sleep deprivation from night shifts. This information guide, designed […]
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What to do when worry keeps you awake
Read about specific skills you can use to soothe nighttime anxiety.
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Yay fitness!
Looking for ways to keep fit during residency? Fitin30 is offering a discount on personal training to residents! Have a look at other Health and Lifestyle Discounts available to you as residents. Feel free to have a look at the RWO Community Events page, which outlines different community fitness activities available in locations around the […]
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