Guest kakashifan Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 is a CMA/BCMA membership necessary? sure it's only $5 but i can buy my lunch with that. thanks! =0. k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jochi1543 Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 I believe I read somewhere on this forum that you need it to get loans at least at some banks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kakashifan Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 yup! you need it to get the national bank's LOC. but i went with RBC's LOC. so... i don't need it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kupo Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 hey usagi, probably not. although you might be signed up as a med student who knows. cost a poultry 5 bucks. got your jersey ready for japan! kupo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest physiology Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Hello, The BCMA provides free membership to both the BCMA and the CMA, when you begin medical school in September. The BCMA will come in - give you a pep talk, "You should be so proud of your future careers as a physician, congratulations....You truly are the brightest and best that BC has to offer...blah blah blah" and then you get free pizza, a backpack, and goodies in that backpack. I think some of the backpacks are stuffed with gift certificates. Gotta love free stuff :0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kakashifan Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 yay! free stuff! can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 604EL Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 If you REALLY don't want to give up $5, what you could do is pay for the membership first, get the free backpack, sell the backpack for $10 or whatever, then you've made $5 and you've got the membership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest physiology Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Hey 604EL, Always the perpetual entrepreneur Physio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest physiology06 Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 But if you wait, you could get the free membership AND sell the backpack and make a whopping $10! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ian Wong Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Getting the BCMA membership gives you access to MDManagement, which is a CMA subsidiary that has all sorts of financial planning resources, including free consultations/meetings with their financial planners. Yeah, there's a good chance that you have absolutely NO money to do any planning with, but anyone else in your family can also access these services too. I think it's worthwhile to stop in and chat with them at least once, so you know what lies ahead in your financial future as you dig yourself out of the red. MD=More Debt... You also join the CMA at the same time, and get a free subscription to the CMAJ, which you will, like all the rest of us, will read for the first week or so, and then you'll start accumulating a pile of unopened and unread CMAJ's. But there's often interesting stuff in there, so I think it's nice to have. You'll also get a subscription to the BCMJ (our provincial journal), which is pretty useless, but again, there's the possibility of seeing a neat article in there on the rare occasion. Finally, you get access to all sorts of CMA clinical resources here (various searchable databases for articles, drug resources, specialty journals, etc), although granted, you can get the same things through UBC as well. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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