Where it all began in 1969!

This photo is from University of British Columbia Archives [UBC 1.1/2396] and shows University Village back in 1960!

Nine years later, in 1969, the School was established under the leadership of Dr. John Gilbert as a Division of the Department of Paediatrics in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. The School’s office and lab were located in two rooms on the second floor of a commercial building in University Village, accommodating four faculty members and, in the first year, six students.

Things have changed a lot in 50 years! The School now enrolls 48 students each year in the two-year MSc program, which is supported by 18 University-based full- and part-time faculty and over 500 clinical faculty in the community. Our (much larger!) teaching and research spaces in the Friedman Building are not far from the Village, where it all began!