Gisèle Bourgeois-Law, MD, MEd, FRCSC
Associate Dean Professional Development

Email: gisele.bourgeoislaw@viha.ca
Phone: 604-875-4111 local: 69131

Gisèle Bourgeois-Law received her medical degree from the University of Manitoba, and completed postgraduate training in both Family Medicine (CCFP) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (FRCSC). As Director of Clinician Assessment Programs at the Faculty of Medicine University of Manitoba from 1998-2008, Dr. Bourgeois-Law was responsible for the assessment and remediation of practicing physicians referred by the regulatory authority. This later evolved to include a large component of international medical graduate (IMG) assessment. In 2003-2004, she became Winnipeg’s first Site Director for Physician Assistant students for the Canadian Armed Forces; and in November 2004, she was appointed Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Bourgeois-Law obtained her Master’s in Education in 2007; her thesis was on the predictive validity of the assessment for IMGs entering practice.

Dr. Bourgeois-Law joined UBC in September 2008 as Associate Dean Professional Development, responsible for CPD, Faculty Development, and Career Development. This is a new position at UBC, created so as to ensure that mechanisms are in place to support the professional development of faculty members across the Province in their roles as learners, educators, researchers, service providers, administrators and staff in an integrated, province-wide Faculty of Medicine.

In keeping with the concept of a distributed medical school, Dr. Bourgeois-Law is based in Victoria, but travels regularly to Vancouver.