{"id":1843,"date":"2018-04-09T19:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rheum.ca\/?page_id=1843"},"modified":"2020-01-15T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:40:41","slug":"dr-kam-shojania","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rheum.ca\/awards\/2013-award-recipients\/dr-kam-shojania\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kam Shojania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Kam Shojania<\/h1>\n

2013 Teacher-Educator Award<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr.\u00a0Shojania is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Division of Rheumatology.\u00a0 Since 2008, he has been the Chief of the UBC Division, Head of the Vancouver General and St. Paul\u2019s Hospital Divisions, and the UBC Rheumatology Postgraduate Program Director.<\/p>\n

Dr. Shojania\u00a0completed his training at UBC.\u00a0 He was the Chief Medical Resident and won the K. A. Evelyn Award for the most outstanding resident.\u00a0 He joined the UBC Faculty in 1995.\u00a0 In 2003,\u00a0Dr. Shojania\u00a0received the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award.<\/p>\n

At the time of\u00a0first faculty appointment, the Program received Ministry of Health funding to train only one rheumatologist every two years.\u00a0 In the past few years, thanks to his lobbying, the Ministry approved funding for up to four new trainees per year.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Shojania\u00a0is recognized across the University and at the Ministry level for promoting the need for more rheumatologists and he is known to highly value the teaching potential of all rheumatologists (community and academic, clinical and research-based).<\/p>\n

Based on his strong track record of improving both undergraduate and postgraduate training, and continuing medical education in rheumatology at the University of British Columbia,\u00a0Dr. Shojania was awarded a five-year Arthritis Society of Canada Clinician-Educator Award in 2001.\u00a0 He became more active in promoting better rotations and developing novel electives for early-year medical students and internal medicine residents.\u00a0 One of Dr. Shojania\u2019s first initiatives in 2001 was to start a basic skills course for the new UBC rheumatology fellows.\u00a0 The UBC Basic Skills Course is now a five day course attended by most of the new rheumatology trainees from across Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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