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Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2019
... jazz musician, but after a few years I switched into pre-med, to the immense relief of my parents, as both were raised ... UBC medical school in 1981. In the 1980s, graduating UBC med students were encouraged to do a rotating internship and then ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC May 2019
... Ioannidis wrote what is now very well cited paper in PLOS Med entitled, “Why most published research findings are ... institutions will be more upfront in their push to have students do research as a means to a job. However there is a ...
Letters / BY: Sue McLoughlin, MD, May 2016
... Dr Marcus Welby is the best professional example for our students to emulate [ BCMJ  2016;58:63-64 ], why not make the TV series a compulsory part of the med-school curriculum? But then again, maybe Marcus would ... only be suitable for those headed into family practice. Students destined for internal medicine specialties could ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) July/August 2013
Nearly 1900 medical students and residents are members of the BCMA, and I am ... in the coming year. I love the energy and ideas that students and residents bring to our association. When we ... Dr Barry Tur­chen held an advocacy session for a group of med students. He and BCMA Director Rob Hulyk provided tips to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
Dr William Osler was speaking to medical students at the University of Toronto in 1903 when he said, ... in Surrey. What aspects of medicine that will inspire students who are responding to a “call” not a ...  Pratt JH. The personality of the physician . N Engl J Med 1936;214:364-370. Additional reading Peabody FW. Landmark ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... a friendly way about Cushing’s occasional rudeness with students and members of the staff (though patients thought of ... Press. 1999. Cushing H. William Osler, the man. Ann Med Hist 1919;2:157-167. da Mota Gomes M. William Osler and ...