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Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Anthony W. Chow, MD, FACP, FRCPC May 2022
... is provided on the division’s website ( https://id.med.ubc.ca/faculty-members ). The following summarizes the ... 20 principal investigators and 50 to 60 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research associates in a ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... I went to the University of Calgary for undergrad and for med school. What did you like to do growing up? What wasn’t ... costs, and after a while we were graduating 120 medical students, whereas Alberta had 200. Eventually, what do you ... time you will represent a wide range of people—medical students, residents, family doctors, specialists. How will ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2017
... abstract. What do you think of the challenges that students and residents face today? Medicine has become so ... invent something and get it patented. After finishing med school, were you immediately drawn to working in a rural ... Initially we were an elective site for the urban family med programs, so everybody came for 8 weeks from the ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Fleming, MD May 2013
... through­out BC have stepped forward to train our medical students in the communities where we hope they will one day ... 1-3 ]  During recent years, undergraduate medical students at UBC have been provided with a range of ... the pro­gram by visiting www.integratedclerk ­ships.med.ubc.ca and can direct any questions or comments to Dr ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Rajala MD, FRCPC, April 2013
... a healthy lifestyle for his patients and teaching his students to do the same. He died in 1993 at age 77 from ... of heart disease requires both lifestyle modifications and med­ical treatment. Today lifestyle modifications are the ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...