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I'm with you... I'm totally with you.

Which site is this?

The first year of Coastal is in North Shore, but the second year includes 4 months of rural communities further up north - I'm not sure how much control we have for which 4 months of the year though... Oh right! For someone like me who's looking to experience Vancouver, how would you recommend that I rank Victoria, Nanaimo, Surrey and Abbots?

I read that St Paul's is a great place for advocacy & social justice-kind of cases, do you know if they still have a good exposure of the bread & butter urban family medicine? What are the positive aspects of St Paul's you're referring to?

So based on the proximity to downtown/vibrancy, these should be my top 3: St Paul = Vancouver Fraser > Coastal (tho 4 months of super rural Pemberton/Squamish/Gibsons/Sechelt/Powell River/Bella Bella/Bella Cool) What about Victoria vs Surrey? Both sub-urban vibe, both 2+ hours from downtown Vancouver, Victoria has the inconvenience of being on island but better weather. Nanaimo vs Abbotsford? Both even less urban than above, both <2 hours away from downtown Vancouver, but Nanaimo is on island... So I guess Abbots > Nanaimo. I'm feeling like Chili would be last because of its semi-rural vibe...

Thanks so much for such a detailed response!! Could you comment more on St. Paul's vs Vancouver Fraser? My understanding is that the St Paul's stream residents do most of their rotations at St Paul's Hospital (which isn't the prettiest hospital given its age), while Fraser people rotate at multiple hospital sites (Royal Columbian, Burnaby General, Mount St. Joseph’s, Richmond, BC Women’s and Children’s, Eagle Ridge Hospital, Peace Arch Hospital). While I find the older St Paul's Hospital unattractive, but I imagine it would be nice to be able to rent close to the one hospital I work at, rather than having to commute to numerous hospitals (unless these Fraser sites are actually easy to commute in between?)

I'm single and would like to be in a place where I can meet new people lol... Just curious, are the university students in Victoria mostly taken?? haha How much are ferry rides from Victoria/Nanaimo to Vancouver?

Thanks in advance!! I'm looking for a vibrant kind of city life, i.e. good variety of restaurants and activities. I can drive, I can lease a car if it makes life easier (I'm from the East coast so don't have a car available in BC), but if public transit is convenient enough, then I don't mind saving $$$. In terms of cost of living, I hope to rent at a reasonable price, but I'm also ready to pay because my understanding is that nowhere is really reasonable in Vancouver... My current rent is just over $1000 for a studio, if I can get a place for $1000-1500 for studio or 1 bedroom, it would be great. Don't really care about patient demographics.

I have never been to Vancouver and I'm feeling very lost trying to rank the UBC FM sites - I applied to 8 sites: St Paul, Fraser, Surrey-South Fraser, Coastal, Victoria, Nanaimo, Abbotsford-Mission, and Chilliwack. I don't have a strong preference on the structure of the program, but I do prefer urban over rural setting. My understanding is that St Paul, Fraser and Surrey-South Fraser are urban, so are Coastal (1st year), Victoria and Nanaimo (but these 2 are on the island so more difficult to get to Vancouver compared to Abbots and Chilliwack). I am more familiar with Toronto's streams of GTA vs. Barrie-Newmarket vs. Rural Areas, how do these UBC sites compare with UofT's streams? If anyone can share more info regarding how we should go about ranking these sites, I would really appreciate it!

Has anyone done UBC fam med MMI yet? Would appreciate any tips on how to prepare!

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I'm curious, is 80+ hrs/week a reality even for ROAD specialties? I've heard from O&D residents that their days are mostly 8-9am to 5-6pm excluding call, and they would be on call, as junior residents, once per week or even less frequently. Senior residents would usually be back-up call for juniors so the hours are even better.

Which shows that they're well compensated here in Canada...

Is 5-600k before or after overhead? If before how much is overhead usually?

That's my point! I'm thinking it's reasonable that there should be more dramatic cuts