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Strengths of the program include the large number of skilled and dedicated clinical teachers, the wide variety of clinical experience, protected AHD time, 2-week Boot Camp for incoming PGY1s. Our distributed sites throughout the province allow residents to see and participate in community medicine throughout rural areas in the Province, which has a very diverse population.
The program also has other numerous features:
1) One week of annual conference leave with additional funding provided
2) Associate Membership to the American College of Physicians
3) Subscription to NEJM+ Knowledge Plus
4) Annual Resident Research Day
5) Global Health Elective
6) Annual Resident Retreat
7) Annual Resident BBQ and other numerous social events
8) Additional funding for residents presenting at national/international conferences
9) OSCEs
10) Simulation/Ultrasound Curriculum
11) Resident wellness initiatives and events
The primary mission of the UBC Internal Medicine Residency Program is to train residents to attain the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become excellent general internists who are committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of medicine. Residents learn to provide compassionate, respectful, patient-centered and evidence-based care in a variety of academic and community settings. The primary instructional strategy is experiential learning, which occurs through the residents’ graduated patient care responsibilities.
Graduates are prepared to enter the practice of general internal medicine or to pursue fellowship training, either in general internal medicine or the subspecialties of internal medicine.
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Gross Annual PGY-1 Salary | $65,332.37 |
Gross Annual PGY-2 Salary | $72,818.39
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Gross Annual PGY-3 Salary | $79,301.62 |
Gross Annual PGY-4 Salary | $85,318.65 |
Gross Annual PGY-5 Salary | $91,710.67 |
Gross Annual PGY-6 Salary | $97,877.39 |
Gross Annual PGY-7 Salary | $104,271.09 |
Educational Leave | Yes |
Annual Vacation | 4 weeks |
Meal Allowance | No |
Frequency of Calls | 1 in 4 onsite/1 in 3 offsite |
Maternity Leave | 17 weeks, plus up to 78 weeks Parental Leave |
Provincial Health Insurance | 100% Premiums Paid |
Provincial Dues (% of salary) | 1.50% |
Extended Health Insurance | 100% Premiums Paid |
CMPA Dues Paid | Yes, mandatory |
Dental Plan | 100% Premiums Paid |
Statutory Holidays | 2x pay plus extra day with pay |
Long-Term Disability Insurance | Yes 100% Premiums Paid |
Sick Leave | Yes |
Life Insurance | 100% Premiums Paid |
Terms of Agreement April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2022
Resident Doctors of BC website
All applicants, whether successful or not, will receive notification on January 5, 2024.
You will not have information with respect to your interviewers prior to the morning of your interview.
The program offers several live sessions where you will have the chance to ask questions. You can view the event details on the AFMC calendar. If you are unable to find answers in the program description, or on our website, please forward your questions to natalie.cheng@ubc.ca. Your questions will be forwarded to one of the Lead Medical Residents.
Files are not re-reviewed . The Department of Medicine receives a large number of excellent candidates and it is extremely difficult to develop a shortlist. We do feel, however, that we have developed excellent criteria for development of a shortlist. We receive many requests from applicants asking us to review their files again and out of fairness to all applicants will decline to do this except for very extenuating circumstances.
We do not take hard copies of any file materials. The selection process is completely electronic. No paper copies are printed and our faculty work directly from the electronic CaRMS site.
No interviews will be set up prior to the shortlisting process or the formal interview dates. Our process is intended to be equitable to all applicants.
We don’t want to limit the personal letter to just medical content so along with telling us why UBC/Internal Medicine interests you please provide additional information about yourself that may be of interest.
No – UBC, however, receives over 400 applications each year and we are attempting to keep the paperwork down to a minimum for the file reviewers.
No – the files will already have been reviewed and scored. The interview scoring is based solely on the interview.
No – UBC has never had a policy of ranking their students first. We believe in ranking the best applicants we can regardless of where they trained.
Our research office assists residents in connecting with faculty with related research interests.
Yes – all residents are expected to do 3 – 6 blocks away their 3 core years at one of our distributed sites. This is exclusive of any rotations at Royal Columbian Hospital or any Community Rotation.
The UBC Postgraduate Program is fully accredited.
Three months during the core three years of training. This is negotiable for special requests.
Three months during the core three years of training.
We currently have 165 Core Medical Residents in the Program making us the second largest program in the country.
Residents are guaranteed four years of funding. Fellowship positions are competitive and residents are not guaranteed of a position at UBC.
IMG positions come with a maximum 4 years of funding, and as such will not be eligible for sub-specialty training in their fourth year. Successful applicants must complete a PGY4 year in General Internal Medicine.
CMG & IMG applying for Competitive Stream will be eligible for sub-specialty training in their fourth year, followed by a Return of Service.
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