Eight PG locals graduate from the Northern Medical Program

31 students from UBC’s Northern Medical Program at UNBC are graduating this year, with eight of them from Prince George.

Sixteen of the graduates will be entering family medicine residency programs, with many training in rural and smaller communities in B.C. and across the country.

Three of those graduates will train in Prince George and one will train in Fort St. John.

The remaining students have matched to a wide range of other specialties including anesthesiology, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology (head and neck surgery), pediatrics, physical medicine, and rehabilitation, psychiatry, radiation oncology, urology, and vascular surgery.

The local celebration at UNBC in Prince George precedes the formal graduation for the students, taking place at UBC in Vancouver on May 24, at which they will receive their official medical degrees.