We were pleased to learn in July that the BCMJ has won another APEX award, this time in a writing category. The theme issue “Expanded and distributed medical education in British Columbia [8]” by the UBC Faculty of Medicine staff and students won an Award of Excellence in the Feature Series Writing category. The series comprised the following articles:
• Guest editorial [9] (Stuart)
• Medical school expansion in BC [10] (Bates)
• Maldistribution of physicians in BC [11] (Snadden and Casiro)
• Medical school distribution [12] (Thorneloe, MacPherson, Jenkins, Pandachuck, Love, and McCrea)
• Selecting the best for our future [13] (Fabian)
• Anatomy in a distributed model of medical education [14] (Vogl and Ovalle)
• Comparability of student performance and experiences in UBC’s distributed MD undergraduate program [15](Lovato and Murphy)
• Expansion of postgraduate medical education [16] (Webber, Rungta, and Sivertz)
• Residency on the road [17] (Dickeson)
• Focus on the profession [18] (Armstrong)
• Supporting lifelong learning for physicians [19] (Ho, Ferdinands, Jarvis-Selinger, Bluman, and Hardwick)
Congratulations to all the contributors on this well-deserved award.
Links
[1] https://bcmj.org/cover/september-2009
[2] https://bcmj.org/node/3307
[3] https://bcmj.org/print/news/bcmj-and-faculty-med-win-writing-award
[4] https://bcmj.org/printmail/news/bcmj-and-faculty-med-win-writing-award
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[7] https://bcmj.org/javascript%3A%3B
[8] https://bcmj.org/cover/september-2008
[9] https://bcmj.org/issues/guest-editorial-improving-health-expanded-and-distributed-medical-education-british-colum
[10] https://bcmj.org/content/medical-school-expansion-bc
[11] https://bcmj.org/content/maldistribution-physicians-bc-what-we-are-trying-do-about-it
[12] https://bcmj.org/content/medical-school-distribution-student-perspective
[13] https://bcmj.org/content/selecting-best-our-future-md-undergraduate-admissions-procedures-ubc
[14] https://bcmj.org/content/anatomy-distributed-model-medical-education
[15] https://bcmj.org/content/comparability-student-performance-and-experiences-ubc%E2%80%99s-distributed-md-undergraduate-program
[16] https://bcmj.org/content/expansion-postgraduate-medical-education
[17] https://bcmj.org/content/residency-road-providing-care-and-gaining-experience-rural-bc
[18] https://bcmj.org/content/focus-profession-academic-and-clinical-departments
[19] https://bcmj.org/content/supporting-lifelong-learning-physicians-continuing-professional-development-and-knowledge-tr
[20] https://bcmj.org/modal_forms/nojs/webform/176
[21] https://bcmj.org/%3Finline%3Dtrue%23citationpop