The UBC Northern Medical Program, in partnership with UNBC will be seeing 29 students turn into doctors.
The students celebrated their graduation from the program on Thursday afternoon, and will be receiving their medical degrees on May 21st.
Regional Associate Dean for Northern BC, Dr. Paul Winwood said some grads will be staying in Northern BC.
“We always have a number who stay in Northern BC for their next stage of training, residency programs.”
“This year we have five who will be staying in Northern BC, and actually working across Northern BC in the Northeast, and the Northwest as well as Prince George.”
Dr. Winwood added the vast majority of graduates that go into family medicine go into programs designed for rural medicine.
He says this years class has had four grads that have matched to residency programs in emergency medicine, when they’ve only seen one or two match a year, making this year’s grads unique.
The grads will now move into two to seven years of medical residency and fellowship training depending on specialty.
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