Doctors who are former Olympians
Are you as impressed and astonished as I was when I learned there are 11 former Olympians who are also graduates of the University of B.C. medical school? As a journalist specialising in coverage of...
View ArticleCompetition for med school spots: parents desperate to see their kids get in...
By Pamela Fayerman VANCOUVER - Parents desperate to see their sons and daughters get a highly coveted seat at the University of B.C. medical school are trying everything, from calling their MLAs and...
View ArticleBariatric weight loss surgery: a formerly fat B.C. doctor, on shedding 110...
While attending UBC medical school, Dr. Ben Williams weighed 320 pounds. Since having bariatric surgery nearly two years ago, he has lost 110 pounds. When he wraps up his family medicine residency...
View ArticleHealth minister Mike de Jong on whether CEO used influence for son’s UBC...
A BC health executive didn’t abuse his position when he called the University of B.C. medical school Dean, the Provost and a cabinet minister about his son’s application, a report to government says....
View ArticleOdds stacked against Canadians studying medicine abroad if they want to...
BY Pamela Fayerman As my story today describes, there are more doctors from Saudi Arabia and other oil rich Persian Gulf states living in BC to do their residency training than there are BC doctors...
View ArticleMost popular health posts of the year; reader favourites
On the third anniversary of my MedicineMatters blog, it seems like a good time to share what may be a little known fact: despite a newly introduced meter system in which numerous stories are freely...
View ArticleUnemployed doctors: PAR-BC president speaks for medical residents on the...
By PAMELA FAYERMAN Can you believe we’re now experiencing a doctor glut across Canada? That’s the conclusion to which some have come after hearing that 16 per cent (16.5 per cent in BC) of newly...
View ArticleMinorities in the medical profession; what universities do (or don’t) to...
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN In the same week that the University of B.C. saw another five Aboriginal students graduate from its medical school, the New York Times published a piece bemoaning the shortage of...
View ArticleUBC Faculty of Medicine responds to complaint about a PhD candidate using...
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Franco Cavaleri struck gold with competitive bodybuilding titles more than 20 years ago, but as a current PhD candidate in the UBC faculty of medicine, he’s attracting scrutiny over...
View ArticleMEDICINE MATTERS: Skills surgeons need include athletic ability, hand-eye...
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Spots in medical school or post-graduate specialty training programs are really hard to get. Those who screen applicants have to always be dreaming up new ways to select the cream of...
View ArticleVancouver author's mind roams on how we have become Dysconnected
Do you check your cellphone before you get out of bed in the morning? That’s the first question posed in Dysconnected Isolated By Our Mobile Devices (AJKS Press). The book by Vancouver-based UBC...
View ArticleNew UBC chair determined to improve health care for B.C.'s rural residents
If you have a stroke in Vancouver, you can be at Vancouver General Hospital in less than half an hour, receiving highly specialized medical care from on-site neurologists. But what happens if you have...
View ArticleLack of diversity in medical textbooks could cause racial bias: UBC study
UBC researchers studying how race and skin tone are depicted in medical textbooks have found a startling lack of diversity. And, their new study argues, that could be contributing to racial bias in...
View ArticleExodus of Saudi doctors a flashpoint in Canadian medical training
About 44 Saudi Arabian doctors doing advanced postgraduate medical and surgical specialty training in B.C. have a month to pack up and go home, on orders of their government. They were supposed to...
View ArticleCanadian doctors educated abroad file lawsuit, say limits on B.C. residency...
A B.C. group representing Canadians who’ve graduated from medical schools outside Canada and the U.S. has filed a lawsuit challenging the obstacles these doctors face in competing for the limited...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: What is the truth about the risks of marijuana?
Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, set out to scare people with his book about the dangers of marijuana. He makes no secret of that and he’s pretty good at doing just that. His book, Tell...
View ArticleTask force launched to tackle sexual harassment at UBC medical school
UBC medical students are being sexually harassed more often than students in other Canadian medical schools, according to a new report. An internal memo written by Dr. Andrea Townson, acting co-head of...
View ArticleVancouver medical school hopeful gets $563,000 in damages after car crash
A Vancouver woman and medical school hopeful has been awarded $563,000 in damages after a car accident that occurred more than five years ago. Read More
View ArticleHigher than average cancer rates in B.C.'s Indigenous population to be...
Finding out why colon and cervical cancer rates are higher among B.C.'s Indigenous population are among the aims of a new research position at the University of British Columbia. Read More
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