MDs To Be

A young female-identifying patient presented to an emergency department in British Columbia with several years of debilitating abdominal pain. She described severe, cramping pain in her lower abdomen... Read More

Background Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and a major cause of disability in the aging population. Over 6 million Canadians have arthritis, which costs the Canadian economy $... Read More

Modern medical education has a strong infatuation with the concept of resilience. It is the quality du jour, evidenced by resilience modules, chipper speeches on building resilience, and even... Read More

Positionality statement During my first year of medical school at the University of British Columbia, an Indigenous youth went missing on the streets of Amiskwaciy Waskahikan (Edmonton). As a... Read More

Background Four million people currently live with chronic kidney disease in Canada, almost half of them under the age of 65.[1] Furthermore, the percentage of patients who progress to end-stage... Read More