14 Years of Progress: Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare

Abstract

The Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare (CUCOH) has grown in its size and breadth of conference activities over the past 13 years, to become the largest undergraduate healthcare conference in Canada, which. It began at Queen’s University, in Kingston Ontario, with a clear need to bring together undergraduate students from diverse educational backgrounds to create a forum for healthcare knowledge exchange between experts in their fields and un-dergraduate students. The conference quickly grew in its programming to now host innovative training workshops, expert-led case challenges, and an expanding research competition program. It also grew in its size of students and experts, now welcoming over 400 students across 8 provinces in Canada, and over 50 experts to lead workshops, sem-inars, and judging of the research competition. Over the next few sections, we hope to provide you with an understanding of the inner workings of CUCOH, the successes garnered and challenges faced, and advice we would give to future conference planners.