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Letters / BY: Marcus Greatheart, BA (Hon), MSW, RSW, January/February 2012
... this year’s wait lists while others are among the 3500 students training in­ternationally. However, the ... selection criterion. As a non-science background med­ical student, I bring a different perspective to our ... who broadened the selection criteria to include students like me. Yes, I do want to be a doctor. And I think ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2011
... been through two upheavals in my life, in Iran I was at med school when the Shah’s regime ended and then there was ... under my care and I would do rounds with residents and students. I did that for a long time and practised ... us yes, even if you bring out double the number of medical students, our attrition rate is high.  The recent Physician ...
Obituaries / BY: Carolyn van Schagen, MD, June 2010
... that Kerry enrolled at Simon Fraser University for her pre-med classes, and despite narrowly missing the application ... School, class of 1993. Surely she is one of the only students to list playing the spoons as a skill.  As a ...
Letters / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, July/August 2009
... peer-reviewed academic journal. Currently, over 100 students at UBC from all levels and training and three ... 8 September 2009 at the Life Sciences Centre, UBC. E-mail med.journal@ubc.ca if you are interested in submitting ... MSc —Bez Toosi, BSc Communications Editors Letters Med student journal launched ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Clifford Fabian, FRCPC, FRCSC, FACS September 2008
... needs of the province once their training is complete. The students that UBC’s MD un­der­graduate program seeks are ... interviews were conducted for 256 places. Where possible, students were matched to their site of preference. This meant ... to the UBC MD undergraduate program, visit  www.med.ubc.ca/education/md_ugrad/MD_Undergraduate_Admissions.htm ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Osman S. Ipsiroglu, MD, MAS, MBA, November 2008
... public education activities are needed, such as the Mini Med School series of the Child and Family Research Institute. ... educational materials should be tailored for high school students and other materials for the elderly. Involve ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, October 2008
... of exceptional mentors who served their patients and students with distinction and class. Collectively they ... involved in the teaching and training programs of medical students and residents. His surgical skill and good judgment, ... in North Burnaby before enrolling at UBC for his pre-med education. As was common for many of his era, the pursuit ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, April 2007
... physics, and he went on to UBC where, after 3 years of pre-med studies, he was accepted into the Faculty of Medicine, ... enthusiastic educator of interns and medical and nursing students, many of whom rated the time spent in his office and ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... that we’re starting up is an increased focus on medical students. We are planning to address their debt problems, and ... something where we don’t just meet up with the medical students during their first year. We’re hoping to have ... It’s going to be fun and really rewarding for everybody. Med students now have a Family Practice Club—they run it, ...
Obituaries / BY: Peter Grantham, MD April 2006
... undergraduate at UBC, Bill became a “first class” pre-med student, universally recognized by us all as one who ... he of course did, no problem. For those in UBC Med ’58 he was top of the class each year and popular gold ... a photograph of half a dozen (oh-so-young) medical students in their short white coats apparently seriously ...