Dear Colleagues,

As we move into the 2024 - 2025 Academic year, we hope the summer season has brought opportunities for rest, relaxation and rejuvenation!

The Annual Graduation Celebration was a joyous event, filled with time to focus on many positive elements of our program and opportunities to reconnect and enjoy each others' company again. We would like to, once more, congratulate our graduated residents! We are so proud of your accomplishments and are excited to hear what the future holds for your careers!

During our graduation celebration, we announced this year's Residency Training Program teaching awards. I would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to all of our wonderful teaching faculty for their continued support of our residency program and our growth and development as ophthalmologists. Your mentorship and guidance is pivotal to our training program and, now more than ever, is sincerely appreciated.

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As we send off graduates, please join us in welcoming our new PGY1 residents - Dr Sarah Abdalrahman, Dr Abed Baiad and Dr Mahraz Parvand - make sure to say hello and welcome them to the program!

Our focus for the upcoming academic year will continuing our transition to Competence By Design. We are excited to have launched in July 2023 and welcome our new residents into this exciting time. We look forward to working with you all as we implement this new system of residency education.

As always, we are deeply grateful to the many clinical, surgical, and non-clinical teachers in our program, as well as all the other admin & support staff who make our program what it is! Thank you all for your continued support, encouragement, and enthusiasm for educating the next generation of ophthalmologists in BC.

We wish all of you a relaxing and enjoyable summer. As always, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Sincerely,

Nawaaz Nathoo, Program Director

Salina Teja, Associate Program Director