Northern Medical Program

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Northern Medical Program (NMP) is a joint medical program by the UBC Faculty of Medicine and the University of Northern British Columbia. It is one of three medical programs in the UBC Faculty of Medicine, along with the Island Medical Program (IMP) at the University of Victoria and the Vancouver-Fraser Medical Program (VFMP) at the University of British Columbia. A future program at the UBC Okanagan campus will be called the Okanagan Medical Program (OMP).

The program was created to increase the number of doctors in the BC Interior.

Admissions targets for the three combined programs:^[1]

128 to 200 spaces in 2004
224 in 2005, including 24 in the IMP and 24 in the NMP
224 in 2006
256 in 2007
286 in 2009, including 30 in the OMP.

The program consists of four years of studies:

Year 1 and 2 - general sciences or Foundations of Medicine. All classes for students in the IMP and NMP in the first term of the program are held at UBC's campus in Vancouver with the rest of the students in the VFMP.
Year 3 and 4 - Clinical
Year 4 - advanced clerkship, residency and Resident Matching Service (CaRMs) match

The program is based mainly at the Northern Health Sciences Centre in Prince George, British Columbia as well as: