Joyce Campkin (1924-2021)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH24, CDOH40

Graduating from VGH in 1947, Joyce went on to VGH OR post graduate work at VGH, a diploma from McGill University in clinical teaching and supervision, and a BSN from UBC in 1972. She worked mostly at VGH in gynecology, OR, SON clinical instructor, and orthopedics.

She describes her greatest career satisfaction “sensing and observing the sense of trust (student learner or patient) to one another and the growth of students’, patients’ readiness to participate in supervised teaching of students.

UBC pin is in envelope in artifact collection.

Contents of Biographical File

  1. Biographical Information Profile with signed release
  2. News in General (July/August 1984) with photo of Campkin
  3. Photograph
  4. Publicity sheet for her autobiography Good Times