New Group of Med Students Here

Monday, January 15, 2007 04:01 AM

From left to right: Saelle Bradwell, Sarah Roberts, Erin Carlson, Keith Martin, Susie Butow, and Megan Thwaites. They are the 6 who make up the "P.G. Quarter" in the new group of Northern Medical Program students at UNBC.

The Northern Medical Program at UNBC has welcomed a new group of students who are being "trained in the North".

There are two interesting things about this group which will graduate in 2010. There are 19 women and 5 men, and of the 24 students, 6 or 25% say Prince George is their hometown.

That is the largest contingent of Prince George students since the program started three years ago.

The students will have classes through video conferencing, internet, face to face instruction and the one- on- one northern experience instruction they can only get from working with local physicians in various health care settings throughout the north.

The Northern Medical Program is a partnership between UNBC and UBC.

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Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 04:01 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Foo738 on January 15 2007 9:08 AM

What a heart warming story to read. Congratulations to all the students. This is one of the best parts of Prince George.

Posted by: Runner46 on January 15 2007 11:12 AM

Little did we realize at that meeting at CN Centre that it would amount to this.

I look forward to being at their graduation ceremonies.

Posted by: owl on January 15 2007 3:49 PM

I think the untold story is the proportion of women to men.

Some 40 years ago it was the reverse. Local interest not withstanding, I think that is the more interesting story. Something many of us were aware of, but when you see a picture of 6 locals with 5 being women, there is a story to be told as to why things have changed.

I suppose the same could be said for nurses, only in the reverse.

This story from Johns Hopkins dated 1994 states that the calibre of wome applying has been going up. At that time 43% of applicants were female, but 53% of the accepted applicants were women.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1994/AUGUST/199413.HTM
As the Calypso tune states ... "men smart ... women smarter in every way" ...

Posted by: Palopu on January 15 2007 4:55 PM

Fine looking group. I wish them well.

Posted by: Palopu on January 16 2007 8:45 PM

Cant say why things have changed but they certainly have.

There are 12,297 more females that males at UBC, SFU, UVIC UNBC

At UNBC we have 726 more females that males.

This is a continuing trend through out Norh America. One of the few areas where there are more men than women are the Certified Trades, where there is a significant difference.