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Thank you so much for all the advice, Hurthouse. I appreciate it!

I am trying to set up my 4th year electives, and I am wondering if anyone can offer some advice regarding getting reference letters. In many rotations, you get to work with multiple preceptors. Or, if you work with a preceptor primarily, you do not get a lot of face-to-face time with the preceptor, but rather work a lot with the residents. How likely it is then to get a good reference letter? Also, if in a particular rotation, you work on shifts with different preceptors, but all preceptors send feedback to a lead person to summarize feedback and provide evaluations, is it a good app

I am from the Class of 2019. I personally do not know a course organized by upper years or the Faculty, but I could be wrong. You can also post this in the facebook group. The Faculty requires CPR at the HCP level. It does not matter where you got it, at least for now.

Are you from UBC? If yes, you should be able to find original percentage grade. UBC issues both percentage and letter grades.

Clinical exposure in first 2 years consists of mainly three components: 1. Family Practice visits: You are placed in a family physician's office throughout the Greater Vancouver Area (for VFMP students) each term. Every term's placement is different. For term 1 of year 1, you have 4 visits, each lasting 3 hours. For all other 3 terms, you have 8-10 visits each term (once a week for most weeks). For one of the year 2 term, you have the opportunity to see specialized clinics, such as transitional units, student health clinics, circumcision clinics, breast-feeding clinics, etc. 2. Clinica

I am happy you find my post helpful. As a UBC medical student, I did not have much experience about UofT medical school. So I do not think I can give you a fair answer. But if strictly speaking from my one-sided perspective, I would say the opportunities to make connections at UBC are abundant. Like in most schools I suspect, the limiting factor is more about how motivated you are to get involved. Things can be different if a medical school does not have a certain residency program, which does not apply to either UBC and UofT for most specialties. https://phx.e-carms.ca/phoenix-web/pd/m

For your questions regarding the assessment of your TRU-OL courses, it is best for you to contact the MD Admissions Office of UBC. They are very responsive. If it is something with existing rules, they adhere to the technical rules strictly. UBC does look at your entire application after your interview, when determining your final rank. But no one outside the Admissions Committee knows how much impact it will have on your application.

Program directors prefer good candidates, not necessarily students of the home school. With that said, at least in the specialty I am interested in, people tend to do residency in the province of their medical school. This may be due to the research opportunities in medical school to make connections, easier elective placement, the student's willingness to stay in province, etc. Still, this is probably more related to the geographic proximity, than the program's preference of a school's education curriculum. If you look at CaRMS results, there are quite a bit intra-Ontario movements between sc

This is not an easy decision to make. In the end, it is probably your personal preference on location, weather, life style, family, etc, that would make a bigger impact. The statement that a certain Canadian medical school has tremendous advantages over others in CaRMS outcome is false, whether on the basis of actual CaRMS statistics (publicly available online), or the general perception in the field. Things might be a bit different when you go beyond the border, when the prestige of the institution plays a larger role.

Good luck everyone!! I was in your shoes not too long ago, and I can still remember the excitement when receiving the offer email. If you did not get what you wanted, do not lose your hope, and wish you better luck next year!

I agree with InstantRamen. It sounds like a very powerful entry, but only give out information that is necessary for your purpose. As you said, psych issues still carry stigmatization in the society, and this can also be true even in medicine.

I heard from a program director at UBC that program directors are supposed to remain neutral in the selection process, so it is important that students are not aiming at getting letters from them from the beginning, because they would not provide the letter.

Full disclosure is required when you apply to medical school. It is in your best interest to keep being honest in your entire professional life in medicine.