The Northern Medical Programs Trust has given out more than 550 awards to students in UNBC health care programs since 2006. The Trust is a partnership between UNBC and more than 30 northern local governments.
“It provides shadowing programs for first and second year students to spend weekends with MDs out in their practices to give them an idea of what it’s like to be a family practitioner. It supports third year students in their clerkships throughout the north,” says Electoral Area C Director John Massier. “It provides funding to the travelling road show, which is a group of healthcare professionals that travel through our communities once a year and speak to high school students about careers in science and medicine.”
Massier says the trust is introducing a couple of new initiatives this year. One is a bursary program that will be available to undergraduates from northern BC who have expressed an interest in applying to one of UNBC’s health professional programs
“That will allow a high school student from one of our communities in the north to get into a program and have some financial support. Another new item is that the trust has decided to develop a Family Nurse Practitioner award that will be available to Family Nurse Practitioner graduates who accept a nursing position within the Northern Health Authority. We’re going to give out two of those awards.”
Massier says the trust will invest $215,000 in students and graduates of the Northern Medical, Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner programs at UNBC this year.
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