My name is K.C. and I’m from Victoria, BC. I’ve had the privilege to grow up on this beautiful island and to live at home during my university years. I live in a biracial Canadian-Japanese home and have primarily grown up speaking English with little bits of Japanese with my mother. 

I am beginning my final year of the Health Information Sciences program and expected to graduate in August 2021 (yay). My favourite academic subjects are anything health sciences related and art. Luckily during my core year, I had the opportunity to take a Usability Design course in Health IT and a networking floor plan course which I found the most engaging during my time at university. Some of my hobbies include playing water polo, exploring the beautiful west coast and trying new restaurants as I’m a big foodie. 

Something interesting I did this past year was my coop term working for Interior Health in Kelowna. I was a part of the Physician Systems Team whose primary focus is on physicians in the Emergency Departments across interior BC. Throughout this coop, I had the opportunity to assist in Go-Lives of new technologies being implemented in the ED as it was previously paper-based. I gained an array of valuable skills on how to successfully implement health IT’s from user training to the technical debugging.

Throughout this term I hope to learn various multimedia and digital interaction techniques used for learning. These are valuable skills to learn especially during times of remote learning. 

Thanks for reading and I’m looking forward to interacting with you all!

 

KC