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UBC Division of General Internal Medicine Fellowship Programme

The General Internal Medicine Fellowship programme is a two year programme designed to provide enhanced training for residents who wish to pursue a career in general medicine in either the community or in a university setting. The programme offers significant flexibility for trainees to design a curriculum that meets their individual career needs. One or two Fellowship positions are available each year.

Trainees spend two years in the generalist and subspecialty teaching programmes at UBC as well as being encouraged to undertake community electives. Up to six months can be spent in an individual subspecialty area in order to enhance both subspecialty knowledge and procedural skills that would be useful to trainees in their future careers. Mandatory rotations at the UBC teaching hospitals, include a longitudinal outpatient clinic and functioning as the junior attending on the medical Clinical Teaching Unit at either St. Paul’s Hospital or Vancouver General Hospital. Elective opportunities in Women’s Health are available at BC Women’s Hospital (Dr. Laura Magee).

Fellows also have the opportunity to spend one year in pursuit of an advanced degree, such as a master’s degree in medical education, women’s health, clinical epidemiology or public health, either at UBC or in other university settings. Past trainees have obtained Master’s Degrees in Public Health, Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Education at such prestigious institutions as Harvard University and Brown University.

Trainees are also encouraged to undertake research in the area of their interest. Qualified Fellows may be candidates for the UBC Clinical Investigator Programme, a research program designed to develop new investigators.

Fellows who have successfully completed the GIM Fellowship Programme are now working in the Department of Medicine at UBC and in communities such as Richmond, Kamloops, Salmon Arm and Campbell River here in B.C. They are very well trained and provide outstanding care to their communities.

The UBC GIM Fellowship Programme is an exciting training opportunity. The hospitals in Vancouver provide ample clinical material that offers an outstanding learning opportunity. St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital are the leading tertiary and quaternary teaching hospitals in the entire province. Our training programme allows Fellows an unlimited opportunity to develop further their core internal medicine skills.

You can download the program objectives and program goals here.