UBC Medical Alumni Association (MAA) Wellness Week is an exclusive and accessible opportunity for UBC medical students, residents, and alumni to emphasize personal health and wellbeing, which can often be challenging! Recognizing that healthy doctors contribute to healthy communities, we encourage you to take a moment each day, wherever you are, to dedicate some time to your holistic health and wellbeing.
From August 15 to 21, 2024, during UBC MAA Wellness Week:
- Connect with your Wellness Week community even from a distance by sharing photos of your week’s health journey on our new online Photo Community Canvas! Motivate each other with photos of your healthy meal or morning running, and one lucky participant will win a $50 Save-on Foods gift card!
- Enter fun contests for bragging rights and $1250 worth of prizes, including a $550 ten-cold plunge pass to Plunge Wellness, a $200 Cactus Club gift card, and more!
- Unlock your inner Yogi live from the UBC Medical Student Alumni Centre (MSAC) or online from home at Yoga in the Courtyard on Saturday August 17th with special door prizes!
Registration is free and a great way to enjoy the summer!
ALSO: Register by August 1st to be entered for our early bird prize draw! It pays to be early!
Yoga in the Courtyard
Date: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
Location:
In-person: UBC Medical Student & Alumni Centre (MSAC) | 2750 Heather St, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4M2
Virtual: Zoom link will be provided
Cost: FREE!
Limited in Person Spots Available
Join us for Saturday morning Yoga in the UBC MSAC Courtyard. This session will be catered to medical doctors and focuses on strategies for stress management. Information regarding how to access a recording of the session will be sent to all registrants after the event.
Everyone is welcome! Registration is free and it’s a great way to enjoy the summer.
Registration closes on August 13th!
UBC MAA Wellness Week 2024 Organizing Committee
Jim Boyle, MD’78 (Chair), Nicole Mar, MD’22, Judy So, MD’24, Eric Chow (UBC)
Thank you for our generous 2024 sponsors
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Over the course of one week, over 250 UBC MD students, residents, alumni, and UBC MAA members from all over BC, and even as far as Halifax, joined us for UBC Medical Alumni Association Wellness Week 2023, a hybrid opportunity to focus on health and wellbeing. We had students from all four years and from all four distributed sites, 18 resident specialties, and alumni from 33 MD class years and 20 different residency specialties.
Throughout the week, participants completed over 72 unique activities, including things you've never done before like seaplane riding, cow milking, and puppy yoga! Over 30 people also attended our first hybrid Yoga in the Courtyard event from the UBC Medical Student Alumni Centre Vancouver or online from home!
A special congratulations goes out to our contest winners:
#1 - Better Together Contest
Winner: Marya A.
#2 - New Activity Contest
Winner: Ze Xin Jason Y.
#3 - 7 days, 7 Unique Activities Contest
Winner: Adeeb M.
#4 - Kitchen Creation Contest
Winner: Amanda D.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for UBC MAA Wellness Week and we hope everyone is able to incorporate health and wellness into their daily lives. See you next year!
Thank you for our generous 2023 sponsors
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