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Meet our newest SMP students!
Our newest crop of first year students have landed in their distributed sites, ready and eager to learn. This week, meet three of the new undergrads from our Southern Medical Program.
Playing with creativity: UBC production helps medical students get in touch with their artistic sides
Medical students find a creative outlet with the 2015 MedPlay. (Photo credit: Sarb Glaze | sarbglaze.com)
Northern Medical Program celebrates 10 years of MD education
The program, once considered “an impractical dream,” began in 2005 with 24 students.
Dr. David Snadden on rural doctor shortages in B.C.
Our own Dr. David Snadden recently spoke with CBC regarding rural doctor shortages in B.C. and what the UBC Faculty of Medicine is doing to address this issue. The interview begins about halfway through the podcast. Listen here.
#BCMD10: celebrating 10 years of our MD program’s expansion and distribution
2014 marks the ten year anniversary of the launch of UBC’s distributed MD Undergraduate Program. To mark this occasion, we have developed a microsite, which will take people through the history, challenges and successes of the program.
Southern Medical Program student named Vanier Canada Scholar
Southern Medical Program student Alexander (Sandy) Wright has received the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS).
HOpe Centre will provide more academic space for UBC medical students
The newly constructed HOpe Centre is a four-storey mental health and addictions facility located on the southeast corner of the Lions Gate Hospital campus in North Vancouver. The facility will house a 26-bed psychiatric inpatient unit as well as allow for enhanced integration, with mental health outpatient clinics and community mental health programs being housed […]
Curriculum Renewal Update (Fall 2014)
On October 15th, 2014 the MD Undergraduate Renewed Curriculum Full Proposal was approved by UBC Senate. This milestone means that the renewed MD Undergraduate Program has been officially authorized by the University and can begin to admit students for the Year 1 launch in Fall 2015. These Class of 2019 students will be the first cohort […]
Community, relationships and teaching: all in a day’s work for UBC’s Dr. Simon Bicknell
It’s a crisp fall day on Vancouver’s North Shore. The clear skies allow for an unobstructed view to downtown Vancouver. Lions Gate Hospital is nestled in a quiet neighbourhood in North Vancouver, amongst gorgeous old growth trees; their leaves changing colours with the season. It is a smaller, community hospital, which by nature of its […]
A helping hand, an empathetic ear: honouring Dr. Andrew Seal’s mentorship to MD students
When Christopher Nixon-Giles started medical school, he was overwhelmed and didn’t know what to expect. Between navigating the campus, reading stacks of text books and memorizing medical terminology, he had little time for much else. He was assigned to a mentor group which was comprised of fellow students in each year of UBC’s Vancouver Fraser […]