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Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, April 2016
... should be considered. A recent study of sudden death in student athletes found that in approximately 65% of cases the ... resting QT interval.[ 32 ] The most common form of LQTS (type 1) is associated with exertion, particularly swimming. ... of Brugada syndrome: the classic and more concerning type 1 coved pattern, and the combined previously designated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kristy Cho, MD, FRCSC May 2014
... the chi-square test for categorical variables and the student  t  test for continuous variables. Tumor ... number of breast and nodal surgeries, utilization and type of initial surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic therapy. ... financially by the University of British Columbia Summer Student Research Program (the Council of Undergraduate ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
... are often thought to be of a similar character, the type of people who are accustomed to a schedule that does not ... on a whim, was surprising to us. Through our medical student lens, it is hard to imagine having a day with no ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC March 2011
... surgeon Alton Ochsner, who recognized the eager medical student’s potential and fostered his interest in surgery. ... link between smoking and lung cancer.  Still as a medical student, DeBakey developed one of the first mechanical blood ... in Houston, where a CT scan confirmed the diagnosis of a type A aortic dissection.  Because his advanced age made ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP September 2008
... that allows lectures, lab demonstrations, and faculty and student meetings to take place across all three sites through ... campus, including anatomy labs for dissection. They have student support on site, and have equal access to UBC ... them.  The Faculty of Medicine is also piloting a new type of clerkship in which students spend a full year in a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barry Thorneloe (VFMP), MD September 2008
... Aside from being mortifyingly embarrassing, this type of welcome set the tone for the years to come. In fact, ... learn.  In community hospitals, the role of the medical student is not as defined and there is greater opportunity to ... Clinical Articles Medical school distribution: The student perspective ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Dufton, DC, MD, October 2007
... predictor of diabetic complications in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.[ 7-10 ] Futhermore, a randomized controlled ... protocol. Acknowledgments This research was funded by the Student Summer Research Program, UBC Faculty of Medicine. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Fok, MD, FRCPC September 2007
... according to demographics ( table 1 ) and rotation type ( table 2 ).  Residents were found to have worked an ... rotation. Our results were reported based on rotation type (as opposed to residency specialty) because PGY-1 ... University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine Summer Student Research Program, the Doctor, Patient and Society ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG September 2005
... The ideal format for medical education 1. At first the student must acquire certain basic information. The favored ... method is problem-based learning (PBL), in which the student is given a clinical problem that requires analysis ... to sick and injured patients. For this we should revisit a type of learning that has been used to hand down skills for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC September 2005
... the university and so cannot prepare students for this type of clinical career. Herein lies the paradox. Control of ... little of it, and lacking appropriate mentors, why would a student consider a generalist career? The place to train and ...