NMP Produces Another Crop of Docs
Friday, May 10, 2013 @ 3:45 AM
Prince George, B.C. – It will be a special day at UNBC tomorrow as the Northern Medical Program celebrates the success of more of it’s students.
Thirty students will graduate from the program this year. Each one will be given a Northern Medical Program “shingle” made of mountain pine beetle wood.
As a symbol of their transition from student to medical doctor, each will receive a long white coat to replace the short white coats they had been given as students.
This is the 6th class to graduate from the Northern Medical Program. The program was developed to address the shortage of physicians in rural areas under the theme “If you train them in the north, they will stay in the north” and is a direct result of the Health Care Rally in Prince George in June of 2000. That was the day about 7,000 people crowded the CN Centre to show their concern for the poor level of health care services in the north.
While some of the graduates are expected to further their education with studies in areas of specialties, it is expected most will set up practice in rural communities.
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Brought to you by none other than which political party?
Actually, the ones that I know that are graduating are up to their ears in debt and have been too busy studying to get too involved in politics. They are just happy that they got to do the majority of their studying under the Northern Medical Program here in the north!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t forget to give them their University of BC diploma, to hang on their wall, that’s the piece of paper that has the prestige.
If most set up practice in rural communities, does this mean in BC, or in Canada.??
Of the 30 graduates how many came from BC rural areas including Pr George, and how many came from other parts of the Province and other parts of Canada??
Just askin.
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