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Jaime Yu

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
jcy@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 735-8870
Address
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
10230 111 Avenue
Edmonton AB
T5G 0B7

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Dr. Jaime Yu joined the University of Alberta, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, in July 2016. She completed her medical training at the University of Calgary, graduating with her MD in 2005 and completing residency training in 2010. Dr. Yu started her career as a community physiatrist in Kelowna, BC, with a busy general physiatry practice, seeing patients across the spectrum of neuromusculoskeletal conditions. During her time in Kelowna, she held various academic and administrative leadership roles, including the Faculty Development Director for the University of British Columbia Southern Medical Program (2011-2012), and the Kelowna General Hospital Rehabilitation Program Medical Director (2014-2016). She maintained an active role as a clinical teacher with the UBC Southern Medical Program during that time.

Currently, Dr. Yu is based at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital for her clinical roles, with focus on stroke rehabilitation and spasticity management. Her academic interests focus on medical education, including curriculum innovations and program evaluation. She completed her Master of Education in Health Sciences Education in 2019. She currently holds educational leadership roles as the Competence-by-design (CBD) Lead and Competence Committee Chair for the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program. At the undergraduate level, Dr. Yu is the Preclerkship Director for the University of Alberta MD Program, as well as the MED 523 Musculoskeletal Medicine course coordinator.

Dr. Yu is an active contributor to the Canadian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She co-chaired the scientific committee for the 2018 CAPM&R Annual Scientific Meeting in Whitehorse, YK. She has been on the board of directors for the CAPM&R since 2018, and in June 2022 was elected to President of CAPM&R (https://capmr.ca/).

Featured Publications

Virtual OSCE experiences and performance in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency

Kelly R, Leung G, Lindstrom H, Wunder S, Yu JC

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2021 December; 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001942

Improving Representation of Skin of Color in a Medical School Preclerkship Dermatology Curriculum

Yousuf Y., Yu J.C.

Medical Science Educator. 2021 November; 32 (1):27-30 10.1007/s40670-021-01473-x

Difficulties with Learning Musculoskeletal Physical Examination Skills: Student Perspectives and General Lessons Learned for Curricular Design

Yu J.C., Rashid M., Davila-Cervantes A., Hodgson C.S.

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE. 2021 August; 34 (2):123-134 10.1080/10401334.2021.1954930

Expressive Language Impairment in the Visual Input Modality: A Case Report

Ives CT, Kutcher J, Yu JC

Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. 2021 January; 45 (4):229-238 None

An Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Interventional Ultrasound Training in Canadian Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Programs

Amatto M.D., Rambaransingh B., Yu J.C.

PM and R Journal. 2020 November; Online ahead of print 10.1002/pmrj.12527

Deconstructing the joint examination: A novel approach to teaching introductory musculoskeletal physical examination skills for medical students

Yu JC, Guo Q, Hodgson CS.

MedEdPORTAL. 2020 September; 16 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10945