UBC’s expanded medical school has doctors trained and practicing in rural and smaller centres

There’s a growing number of UBC-trained doctors choosing to practice in smaller communities due partly to the Faculty of Medicine’s province-wide medical education program. As part of this program, more than a third of this year’s 300 graduates were educated and trained outside Vancouver, in hospitals and clinics in northern B.C., on Vancouver Island, or in the Interior. The program, said to be one of the first of its kind in Canada, was created in 2004 with the University of Northern British Columbia, the University of Victoria, and all of B.C.’s health authorities. In 2011, the program was expanded to UBC Okanagan in Kelowna. It’s been ten years since the first class graduated and more than 100 doctors who practice in northern B.C. were trained in UBC’s programs. The program’s supported by the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training.
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