To promote Family Medicine as a career, the BCCFP provides much needed administrative and financial support to the UBC Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG).
These include supporting presentations, holding annual Dinner with Docs events (Vancouver, Victoria and Prince George) and funding a Family Medicine conference geared specifically for first and second year medical students.
Join us September 18, 2010 for the BCCFP Medical Student Conference!
Dinner with Docs
The 3rd annual 2010 BCCFP Dinner with Docs brought together over 60 UBC medical students and enthusiastic family physicians, which included:
- Lisa Gaede (President-Elect BCCFP)
- Nirvair Levitt (CFPC Family Physician of the Year)
- Wilson Mahrin (UBC Family Medicine Graduate)
- Unjali Malhotra (Medical Director Options for Sexual Health)
- Janet Ip (UBC Family Medicine Graduate)
- Jason Kason (Former UBC Chief Resident)
- Tanya Fairweather (BCWH)
- Jim Thorsteinson (BCCFP Executive Director)
- Rosanna Lima (IMG and College Certificant)
- Blanka Jurenka (Medical Director BCWH Sexual Assault Services)
Each physician hosted a table at the Medical Student Alumni Centre. Conversation on the joys of Family Medicine, focused practices and how the professions fits into their family life and why Family Medicine may be the right career choice.
Of the evaluations returned, all said their interest in Family Medicine had "increased" after this event with comments on what they would take away from the event being:
- The wide variety of practice areas and balance between life and career
- Family Medicine offers a very diverse and flexible career
- Diversity of Family Medicine and how there is a lot of opportunities to learn new skills
- A lot of room for exploration of interests throughout a career in Family Medicine
- There is more to rural practice than I thought and will be something I look into
- Very interesting stories of international medicine and remote community medicine
- How happy all the docs are
- Great to be able to talk one on one with family docs that do such diverse things and are so passionate about what they do
This same event was also held in Victoria for a second year in a row with Doctors Fiona Manning, Frank Egan, Fil Edora and Jay Aiken taking the time to host.
A similiar event is also planned for Prince George.
