The very first medical doctors educated in the B.C. Interior’s Southern Medical Program will graduate this year from UBC Okanagan.
The 30 students, who starting their medical training at the UBC Okanagan campus in September 2011, will now, begin two-to-five-year residency programs across B.C. and Canada. The Southern Medical Program is the newest distributed site of UBC’s province-wide medical education program.
Alex Bond, a member of the first class of graduates from UBC’s Southern Medical Program, will be the student speaker at a special event Monday to mark the occasion of the graduation of the province’s newest doctors. (Photo Credit: UBCO)
The program admits 32 students annually and now, four years into the program, more than 800 Interior-based health professionals are involved in teaching medical students and residents in 30 different communities.
This July, a new family medicine residency site will open at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail, and training sites in Kamloops and Kelowna will welcome their second round of residents. A short ceremony congratulating the students on their accomplishments will take place inside the lecture theatre at the Clinical Academic Campus at Kelowna General Hospital, CAC 106, at 1:00 p.m. Monday, April 27th.
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