Northern Medical Program Students Lock In Residency

Thursday, March 12, 2009 03:56 AM

Prince George, B.C.- Another group of medical students in the Northern Medical program is preparing for residency. For some, it will mean 5 more years of education as they move into areas of specialization.

The residencies will take the 23 students to regions across the county as they link up with the experts in their desired fields.

Dr. David Snadden Associate Vice-Provost Medicine, UNBC / Associate Dean, Northern Medical Program, UBC, says about a dozen will be moving into family medicine, others will be specializing in areas which have posed recruitment challenges to PGRH in the past, including; Ear Nose & Throat, Anaesthesiology, Urology, Internal medicine and Orthopaedic surgery.

“The fact they want to go into specialities, proves they are being well mentored at Prince George Regional Hospital. ” Dr. Snadden says the specialties include areas which Northern Health will need in the not too distant future “One of the students is specializing in radiation oncology, while another will be specializing in diagnostic radiation. Both will be important as the new Cancer Centre is developed.”

Eight of the residencies will take place in B.C. the balance of the students will continue this next phase of their education in locations across the country. Dr. Snadden says its important the Northern Medical program and Northern Health, keep the lines of communication open “We know the rural areas will need specialists as well, so its very important that we keep in contact so we can have the opportunity to bring them back.”,

Shirley Bond, MLA for Prince George-Mount Robson, will announce an enhancement to the Northern Collaborative Baccalaureate Nursing Program at the University of British Columbia tomorrow.

The enhancement includes the use of the latest advances in technology for instruction purposes, to ensure northern British Columbians benefit from best practices in health care

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Posted by: metalman on March 12 2009 8:28 AM

We are fortunate indeed to have the Northern Medical program. Some of these future Doctors are bound to stay in the North, or even the Central, hopefuily.
metalman.

Posted by: Catfood on March 12 2009 11:02 AM

Yes, we are fortunate in having a medical program, and hopefully the right people to teach them. It has been my unfortunate experience to have been the object of some of those pupils who are eager to learn, but are only as good as their mentors, who don't know what in the hell they are saying....could've cost someone their life....so hopefully some will stay ......and some will (hopefully) go.

Posted by: Palopu on March 12 2009 5:43 PM

Whats the odds that when these people move across the Country, that is to say from Prince George to Halifax NS to take their residency that they will return to Prince George. Pretty high I would say. This concept is something like the Airport Runway Expansion. The idea being that if you build the runway the planes will come. (Maybe)

Of course other Doctors who go to University in other parts of the Country could very will come to Prince George to fill available positions. In a town the size of Prince George it wont take long to fill all available positions, and after that they will have to go to other areas to get work.

As a matter of interest, those medical students who go to UNBC go to UBC for the first year, and when they graduate they get their doctors degree from UBC not UNBC.