Background Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in Canadian men (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer), with an estimated 22300 cases and 4300 deaths in 2007. Approximately one in eight... Read More
Clinical Articles
The move to a distributed model of medical education in BC presented significant challenges when determining how to train students in gross human anatomy and in histology. These challenges have been... Read More
While attention in recent years has focused on the expansion of the MD undergraduate program at the University of British Columbia, similar expansion of postgraduate (residency) programs has been... Read More
The BC government has funded a provincial medical school linked to one provincial and five regional health authorities. Unique in Canada, this structure provides an unprecedented opportunity for... Read More
Expanding the medical school in British Columbia has provided us with an opportunity to ask questions about what kind of doctors we should be trying to educate. As in the rest of Canada, BC suffers... Read More