A Tip to Pre-Med Students: Don’t Put All Your Eggs in the Science Beaker

Michael J. Horkoff. UBCMJ 2014 5(2):16-17. Full text (PDF, 2.7MB) ABSTRACT Every year in Canada, over 10,000 students apply to medical schools across the country. While each of these applicants has a unique story to tell about why they are considering medicine as a career, they are all trying to figure out the best academic […]

Three Concrete Tips for Teaching Clerkship Medical Students

Neil Dinesh Dattani. UBCMJ 2014 5(2):14-15. Full text (PDF, 2.8MB) ABSTRACT Medical education, and specifically the training of future physicians, is given a lot of importance, for good reason. Current teaching paradigms aim to teach medical students the principles of adult learning, which in this context refers to the ability to access resources and learn independently […]

Evolutionary Medicine: An Academic Elective

Cory Weissman. UBCMJ 2014 5(2):12-13. Full text (PDF, 3MB) ABSTRACT This article includes an argument for the importance of academic electives in undergraduate medical education, along with a description of an academic elective that I took during the summer of 2012. The elective was a one-week course in evolutionary medicine, which is a growing field that […]

Extending the Reach of Medical Care for Remote First Nations Communities:Beyond Technology

John Pawlovich, Marie-Pierre Dallaire. UBCMJ 2014 5(2):9-11. Full text (PDF, 4.4MB)

Key Trends in eHealth to Propel Health Transformation and Education

Kendall Ho. UBCMJ 2014 5(2):6-9. Full text (PDF, 5.9MB)