Posted on: January 30, 2023
The UBC Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) has launched a Rural Shadowing Initiative to increase first- and second-year medical students’ exposure to/interest in rural medicine.
FMIG is currently seeking rural preceptors in many Interior, Sunshine Coast and Island communities who’d allow two medical students to shadow their clinic/ER for the weekends of March 3–5 and/or May 26–28, 2023. The list of potential Island communities, which must be within four hours of students’ geographic location, is provided below.
Communities covered by Island Medical Program
- Lake Cowichan
- Salt Spring
- Mayne Island
- Port Renfrew
- Lady Smith
- Qualicum
- Port Alberni
- Courtney / Cumberland / Comox
- Campbell River
- Ucluelet
- Bamfield
If you’re able to take on this important request, we invite you to please contact FMIG’s Melissa Mantifel at mantifel@student.ubc.ca or Judy Song at judy97@student.ubc.ca. In addition, please feel free to share this link with other colleagues who might be interested.