eduroam at Chilliwack General Hospital

We will shortly be activating the eduroam service out at the Chilliwack General Hospital (CGH). This site offers full-service care in a 120-bed facility with specialty services including obstetrics, general, orthopedic and urologic surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry and a very active emergency room. It provides placement for Year 3 academic learners within the integrated Clerkship program. This program has been in place since 2004, making it the longest running integrated clerkship in Canada. Students in Chilliwack are attached to a family medicine preceptor with whom they work with one day per week. It has been known for some time now that there is a significant lapse in Wireless Internet (WiFi) coverage within the Chilliwack General Hospital site. The UBC Faculty of Medicine (FoM) Facilities and MedIT teams were asked to investigate with our colleagues from the Fraser Health Authority (FHA) to see if anything could be done about the apparent gap in the WiFi service. That investigation concluded that with a collaborative effort between the FoM and the FHA, an amendable solution was available to assist in providing WiFi to the learners and practitioners within the UBC educational and videoconference spaces at the CGH site.

The eduroam service will cover the main areas that the learners spend a majority of their academic time (lounges, study areas, on call spaces and videoconference rooms). The service is expected to be implemented by the end of March 2016.