June 15th, 2009

Peter Au (l) a student between his second and third year of medical school at UBC, confers with Clearwater medical doctor John Soles last week in the local clinic. Au is in the community as part of the annual Rural Family Practice Clerkship. Photo by Keith McNeill
Clearwater might have need of more doctors but it isn’t becausethe community has not been doing its part to help train physicians in rural medicine.
This month Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital and the local Medical Clinic are once again hosting a UBC medical student.
“It’s been going on since I’ve been here, except we missed a year in 2003 during the fires,” said local medical doctor John Soles.
This year’s student is Peter Au. Born in China, he lived nearly all his life in Edmonton before going to UBC to study. He just finished his second year of medical school. Read the rest of this entry »
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