UBC med students
April 23, 2020

When UBC medical school classes were suspended due to COVID-19, six fellow students were left wondering what they could do to help during the crisis. Recognizing that medical students have the capacity and experience to support frontline health care workers and their families, and to help from a...

Find Your Match 2019 Vancouver
February 14, 2019

Like many successful Doctors of BC initiatives, Find Your Match (FYM) started from a place of need: medical students wanted more information before making the important decision of choosing a career. Based on this feedback, the FYM event was created to bring together medical students and doctors...

Back to School
August 22, 2018

It’s that time of year again. BC’s medical students are heading back to school, looking ahead to a year of hard work and long hours – part of their journey to becoming physicians. For students, it is important to take advantage of all the of support available, including family, friends, peers...

November 27, 2017

A dozen rural BC students who are working toward careers in the medical profession have received scholarships funded by Doctors of BC and the BC government through the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues and the Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice.

The students are...

Match Day 2017
March 2, 2017

There is no limit to the list of words to describe the joy a fourth year medical student feels upon learning he/she has matched with their residency program of choice. It’s a pivotal, exciting and nerve-racking time for these medical students – the time in their careers when they learn the...