"People care about the grads in the Northern Medical Program more than any other program, they want to know where they are going when they graduate. They're very keen and very proud of being part of this program and they're very happy to be rural physicians working in the north." Rob Van Adrichem, vice-president external relations at UNBC
"In the larger communities you often have a lot more residents who are teaching you rather than the actual specialists. It's a much more tiered system because there are so many more students there. Often, when you talk to a lot of people in our class in the UBC portion, they weren't delivering babies in third year because there were a lot of residents ahead of them. Here, you're one of few people, so you're very likely to do these things you're not going to be doing in other places. That's what makes it different." -- Kathleen O'Malley, 2008 NMP graduate and Prince George family physician
"You tend to stay where you train, and people have realized all the good things about living in Prince George and the north in general. You make your relationships with the specialists and it's nice in a new practice if you feel supported and have people you can ask questions. It makes you want to stick around. It was great to be in a smaller place, because you could really tailor what you wanted to get out of it." Joanna MacLean, 2008 NMP graduate and family doctor in Fraser Lake
