The creation of the Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM) Education Advisory Council is a vital milestone to implementing the ATM’s education platform to support BC and Canada’s translational medicine ecosystem.
The Council’s core mandate would be to guide the development of a comprehensive and interconnected suite of educational programs supporting all levels of translational medicine, and meeting the pressing workforce needs of local industry to support a vibrant ecosystem of life science research and technology in BC.
Establishing the Education Council is one of the many actions that the ATM and the Faculty of Medicine are taking to accelerate the translation of new discoveries into real-world impact.
Following a preliminary meeting in February, 2022, the Director of the ATM, Dr. Poul Sorensen, is announcing that the Council has been established. The Council has already begun their work providing guidance on the development of two new micro-credential courses in regulatory sciences as part of the ATM education platform, which were recently funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training.
The Council membership and terms of reference will be finalized and approved in the coming months.