UBC’s Mini-Med health education series gets personalized
Personalized medicine and how it affects us all, is the theme for this year’s series.
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Mini-Med Back by Popular Demand
Health Education Series: Oct 27th, Nov 3rd, Nov 10th, and Nov 17th
The Renewed Curriculum
Teaching in Year 1 of the renewed curriculum
Message from the Regional Associate Dean, Interior
We are entering an exciting new chapter for the Southern Medical Program (SMP) with the implementation of the Faculty of Medicine’s renewed curriculum. The SMP Class of 2019, our program’s fifth cohort, are the first to delve into this new learning model that will guide and challenge them along their path to becoming physicians. Over […]
Summertime on the wildfire line
Just another day at the office for Colby Finney’s summer job.
Back to School: Student Profiles
Meet some of our Southern Medical Program students heading back to school for the 2015-16 academic year. Name: Amelia Stegeman Hometown: Not disclosed Program Year: 3 What excites you the most about the 2015/16 school year? My rural placement in Salmo this October. I’ve never been there, but I’m excited to spend some time […]
UBC launches new rural family medicine residency in Kootenay Boundary
(Story by Kerry Blackadar) Only a short time ago, Mark Szynkaruk had never been to Trail, B.C., let alone the communities of Nakusp, Castlegar or Salmo. But, over the next two years, he’ll come to call the region home. And it’s not just the bends of the Slocan River, or the peaks of the Selkirk Mountains that […]
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Southern Medical Program Expands Seats for Rural Applicants
The UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Admissions Office and Southern Medical Program (SMP) are expanding the number of medical school seats available to students interested in rural, remote, or northern medicine. These changes are being implemented in an effort to help address the need for more doctors practicing in rural or remote communities in particular within […]
Dr. Kluftinger Awarded KGH Surgery Teaching Award
Dr. Andy Kluftinger, Clinical Instructor with the UBC Department of Surgery has been recognized for his exceptional teaching with third year Southern Medical Program (SMP) students at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH). Dr. Kluftinger is the recipient of the 2014 KGH Surgery Teaching Award, an award administered by the KGH Department of Surgery which recognizes excellence […]