SMP Graduates Spotlight
Name: Christabelle Bitgood Hometown: Kelowna, BC Program: SMP What have you enjoyed the most about your MD Undergraduate experience? While sitting at the feet of world-renowned teachers during our pre-clinical years was such a joy, the real privilege was learning from the patients I encountered on the wards and clinic offices while a medical student […]
First class: Southern Medical Program graduates first cohort of doctors
UBC’s newest doctors head across Canada to begin residency programs
Dr. Schumacher’s Next Chapter
Dr. Gerhard Schumacher, Site Co-Leader, Undergraduate Education, Kamloops, first joined the Southern Medical Program (SMP) in 2007 in an effort to develop new fourth-year electives at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH). At the time, medical students were seldom on the wards with only a handful of physicians offering electives. “Initially, we weren’t thought of as a […]