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Well if this is true then this is without a doubt the best day of my life. Glad to share it with you guys. Been on this forum for so many years at this point.

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I hope it's ok if I hop on @casajayo's post.
Each week is CBL Monday Wednesday Friday from 8-10. Lectures M, W, F morning. FoS on M afternoon (until it becomes FLEX in spring). Either lecture or lab W/F afternoons. Either clinical skills or family practice T/Th afternoons (half the class will have FP on Tuesday with clin skills on Th and half the class will be the opposite). T/Th mornings are generally free for personal/study time, but sometimes there are interprofessional or indigenous cultural sensitivity sessions during that time. After a long weekend, they almost always make you come in on Tuesday morning.
The topic of the week is fairly random - you can go from pregnancy to immunology to GI, but sometimes you'll get 2 or 3 weeks in a row on a related topic. CBL scenarios are specific to the week theme. I honestly think the most challenging part of med school is self-motivating. It is generally easy to pass - you only need a cumulative 60% on exams (only ~5 people fail each semester and have to do a make up exam) - but now that I'm heading into clerkship, I'm brushing up on a lot of stuff I breezed over in year 1. 
My studying approach has also changed a lot - I used to go to every lecture and now I hardly ever go. A lot of lectures are recorded, but even if they are not, the slides are posted and I could study way more efficiently from just slides or watching recordings on 1.6x speed. It helped me stay focused (I get so bored/distracted at regular lecture speed) and I was more efficient so I didn't need to study at all outside normal school hours and only ~ 3-4 hours on the weekend, depending on how close to exams we were. I personally recommend setting aside either Saturday or Sunday to be a school-free day. It's easy to get very wrapped up in med school and I found that I got a better mental break from having a full day off, rather than splitting my weekend work onto both days. 
Exams include:
Fall Year 1: midterm around October that covers the first 6-8 weeks. Roughly 100 questions, MCQ.
Finals:
an MCQ that covers the second half of the semester a lab exam (radiology, histology, anatomy) a FoS (foundations of scholarship) MCQ a formative (not for marks) OSCE Spring Year 1: a midterm  
Finals: 
an MCQ that covers the second half of the semester a lab exam (radiology, histology, anatomy) a summative (for marks) OSCE FoS exam (thanks to @casjayo for correcting me on the updated schedule!) Year 2 is pretty similar with midterms and final MCQ and lab exams and a summative OSCE in spring, but there is no FoS or formative OSCE. 
 
My apologies for this massive wall of text, hope some of it is helpful, and I'm sure @casajayo may have more recent insight, given that they change the curriculum year to year. 

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Just changed my iphone's email notification settings so that when I receive an email from oasportal it will pop up on my home screen but won't show the email's subject line or preview. Hoping this will give me a small sense of control over when/where I find out while still allowing me to check my phone obsessively. Will definitely be excusing myself from work to "go to the bathroom" when I see the message lol really would rather open it/find out in private

Just changed my iphone's email notification settings so that when I receive an email from oasportal it will pop up on my home screen but won't show the email's subject line or preview. Hoping this will give me a small sense of control over when/where I find out while still allowing me to check my phone obsessively. Will definitely be excusing myself from work to "go to the bathroom" when I see the message lol really would rather open it/find out in private

Guys I'm so scared!!! Lets all pray together 

Last year a friend of mine got the exact same thing as you. For his case, his overall score was too low but since he grew up in Smithers he was also scored in the rural stream and got into the NMP. Hope that helps.

Yeah I was just as confused at first as the process isn’t discussed at all on their website haha. Best of luck to you too

I don’t know exactly how the process works, but I’ve literally seen the email a current classmate got that said they were only being considered for NMP.
So there’s at least one person in my class who was accepted after receiving the same email  good luck @bluewhale!

This makes sense! I guess they would want to ensure a good pool of rural suitable candidates so seats can be filled appropriately. 
 
Sorry @bluewhale - good luck to you! I think I was surprised as this process is not transparently outlined on UBC website.