The UBC Northern Medical Program celebrated its seventeenth graduating class, the Class of 2024, at a White Coat Ceremony at UNBC's Prince George Campus.

The 35 graduating students received their cedar shingles and their long white coats to mark their transition from students to doctors. The shingles have a special connection to the Village of Valemount, a community member of the Northern Medical Programs Trust. The cedar is sustainably sourced and sawn by Cedar Valley Holdings Ltd. and each shingle is sanded, beveled, etched and coated by Glacier Ridge Services. 

The graduates now move into two to seven years of medical residency and fellowship training, depending on specialty.  Twenty graduates will be entering family medicine residency programs, with many training in rural and smaller communities. The remaining students have matched to a range of other specialties including emergency medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, and radiation oncology. 

The UBC Northern Medical Program (NMP) graduation celebration precedes the formal convocation for the students, taking place at UBC on May 22, at which they will receive their official medical degrees.

The NMP is a distributed program site of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), delivered in partnership with UNBC.