Dr Du Plesiss
June 29, 2018

A chance search through Google helped propel Dr Marili Du Plessis from her home in South Africa to Port Alberni, where she has set up a family practice. But it was a joint program of Doctors of BC and the BC government that made the move a reality.

Dr Du Plessis’s husband was doing some...

March 6, 2017

Twice a year, a new group of internationally trained doctors arrive to practice in many rural BC communities. These doctors come to BC through the BC Practice Readiness Program (PRA-BC) – which requires these skilled doctors to complete a rigorous test and then work with local doctors in Health...