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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 ...
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 ...
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
... (some private) schools, filled with about 555 000 students. I set out to learn which of these schools are named ... after a medical doctor to honor their memory and inspire students and staff. We may have missed some schools because, ... A. Swift Elementary School, Abbotsford [photo credit: Can Med Assoc J. 1927 Dec; 17(12): 1565 ] Dr Swift (1880–1927) ...
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 ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... and scientists to avoid mentoring female colleagues or students. Lack of mentorship would deprive women the ... Jagsi R. Sexual harassment in medicine—#MeToo. N Engl J Med. 2018;378:209-211. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1715962 ... era—What’s at stake for academic medicine? N Engl J Med. 3 October 2018. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMms1805743 ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... covering of the body assigned to my group of four fellow students. I also found dissection of the ... dissection manuals with minute anatomical details to help students learn the complexities of human anatomy. In the last ... J, Bradley P, Searle J. Teaching anatomy without cadavers. Med Educ 2004;38:418-424. Papa V, Vaccarezza M. Teaching ...
Blog, COVID-19 / BY: Elsie Wang, BSc
... is often the mother of invention. These UBC medical students responded to the emerging challenges of COVID-19 by ... frontline workers. The MSRT mobilized over 700 medical students from UBC to fill roles at the 811 HealthLink BC ... Edgcumbe, MD, PhD Diagnostic Radiology Resident, UBC Med Edge Consulting, Principal Blog COVID-19 UBC medical ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... practice. It is not clear how much the mental wellness of students or residents is affected by the competing demands of ... that positive context, the Canadian Federation of Medical Students and various resident doctors’ organizations, ... residency: Providing support for Dr Mom and Dr Dad. Fam Med 2016;48:140-144. Blog Physician Father’s Day ...
Blog, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew Assad Joseph Chedrawe, MSc
... Our transatlantic group consisted of two medical students, one computer programmer, one graduate student in ... during times of crisis such as COVID-19. Ir J Psychol Med 2020. doi: 10.1017/ipm.2020.38. 6.    Kasser T, Ryan ... studies in low and middle-income countries. Soc Sci Med 2015;125:60-78. Blog COVID-19 Finding connectedness and ...