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Associate Dean, MD Admissions

By hkalansu | March 28, 2025

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Faculty of Medicine (FoM) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) invites applications for the position of Associate Dean, MD Admissions. This position will be approximately 0.7 FTE (3.5 days per week) for a five (5) year term, with possibility of renewal, subject to satisfactory review, and is expected to be filled by a candidate internal to the Faculty at an appropriate rank.

The Doctor of Medicine Undergraduate Program in the UBC Faculty of Medicine prepares students to meet the health challenges of tomorrow. UBC learners receive the training necessary for a career founded on evidence-based practice, critical reflection, lifelong learning, and an ability to deliver care in a professional manner.

The UBC MD Undergraduate Program is designed to respond to the diverse and ever-changing health care needs in British Columbia, Canada and the world. It is Canada’s first fully distributed undergraduate medical program, delivering medical education in four distinct sites across the province. This allows students to learn in urban centres as well as the most remote communities in British Columbia. This model helps train competent and well-rounded graduates who are prepared to work in any clinical environment.

Reporting to the Vice Dean, Education, the Associate Dean, MD Admissions will be responsible for overseeing and executing the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s MD Undergraduate Program recruitment, admissions, and enrollment strategies. The Associate Dean provides leadership to the MD Admissions team, develops policies, enhances outreach efforts, and ensures a seamless application process to attract and retain a diverse and talented student body. The Associate Dean collaborates with faculty, staff, and other departments to align admissions goals with the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s MD Undergraduate Program mission and strategic priorities.

The Associate Dean, MD Admissions will provide leadership in advancing the Faculty’s strategic plan and goals that align with the University. Equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice are essential to academic excellence, as well as to foster an inclusive community for voices that have been historically underrepresented or discouraged; the successful candidate will contribute to fostering an environment that promotes inclusivity and embodies values of respect, integrity, compassion, collaboration, and equity.

The successful candidate will have an MD or equivalent designation, and demonstrated ability to engage colleagues (in achieving the Faculty’s and University’s strategic plans and priorities, as well as align with institutional policies and procedures); demonstrates passion for continuous quality improvement; demonstrates ability to build, manage, and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships across all levels, both in and out of an organization; demonstrates experience in team building, coaching, and mentoring, guiding and empowering/enabling others; demonstrates skills in conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, and change management; experience in overseeing resources and managing finances; experience functioning in a fast-paced environment; and demonstrated ability to facilitate information sessions, workshops, seminars, working groups, and chair committees, councils, and meetings.

In addition, the successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and interact with empathy, understanding and, respect of diverse perspectives. Experience in collaborating and bringing forward projects with diverse groups, including colleagues, students, and/or partners, is valued.

A detailed job description is available in the FoM Vice Dean, Education’s Office for those who wish to review it. Please inquire at the email address below. Candidates who bring diverse perspectives and lived experiences are encouraged to apply as we strive to enhance diversity, inclusiveness, socio-cultural representation, and perspective of the Faculty.

An application package should include:
• a letter of application with a detailed curriculum vitae that addresses (i) scholarly, professional and creative work, (ii) teaching (including summary of academic and/ or clinical teaching), (iii) administrative service and experience fostering collaboration across partners, and (iv) a brief statement of your current or previous contributions to advancing anti-racism, equity, diversity, decolonization, Indigenization and inclusion in an academic, professional, or community context;
• publications record;
• and names of two references.

Applications should be directed to:

Roger Wong, CM, BMSc, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS, FCGS
Vice Dean, Education
Faculty of Medicine
c/o Tara Chapman, Manager, Office of the Vice Dean, Education
Email: med.vdeoffice@ubc.ca
Subject line: Associate Dean, MD Admissions

Should you have any queries around this position, please contact the Manager, Office of the Vice Dean, Education at med.vdeoffice@ubc.ca.

Review of applications will begin April 28, 2025 and continue until applicants are shortlisted for an interview. The anticipated start date for this position is June 16, 2025 or upon a date to be mutually agreed.

We invite applications from qualified candidates who share our commitment to employment equity and inclusive excellence, and we welcome applications from candidates belonging to historically, persistently, or systemically marginalized groups: Indigenous (First Nation, Métis, Inuit) Peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, and trans and non-binary people.

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and equitable work environment for all members of its workforce. An inclusive work environment presumes an environment where differences are appreciated, recognized, and integrated into current structures, planning, and decision-making modes. Within this hiring process we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable process for all candidates (including but not limited to people with disabilities). Confidential accommodations are available on request. Please contact med.vdeoffice@ubc.ca. If you have any questions regarding accommodations or accessibility during the recruitment and hiring process or for more information and support, please visit UBC’s Centre for Workplace Accessibility website at https://hr.ubc.ca/health-and-wellbeing/workplace-accessibility/centre-workplace-accessibility or contact the Centre at workplace.accessibility@ubc.ca.

With gratitude, we acknowledge that the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and its distributed programs, which include four university academic campuses, are located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of First Nations Peoples and communities around the province.

 

 

UBC — One of the World's Leading Universities. As one of the world's leading universities, the University of British Columbia creates an exceptional learning environment that fosters global citizenship, advances a civil and sustainable society, and supports outstanding research to serve the people of British Columbia, Canada and the world.

Our Vision: To Transform Health for Everyone.

Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors and health care professionals, making remarkable discoveries, and helping to create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world.

The Faculty — comprised of approximately 2,200 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well approximately 650 full-time academic and over 10,000 clinical faculty members — is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, three schools, and 24 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty delivers innovative programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province.

UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. All qualifies persons are encouraged to apply. Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.