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OBJECTIVE: The overall objective of the project was to determine whether the current MD undergraduate curriculum at the University of British Columbia (UBC) met the minimum competencies in women's health according to available guidelines. METHODS: Ovid and MEDLINE were searched for information on women's health topics in medical undergraduate curricula. The Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (APOG) and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) medical student objectives were used as a framework for evaluation of the UBC curriculum...

Dr Finlay is a Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. He obtained a BSc (Honors) in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he also studied for his PhD (1986) in Biochemistry under Dr William Paranchych, studying F-like plasmid conjugation. His postdoctoral studies were performed with Dr Stanley Falkow at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA, where he studied Salmonella invasion into host cells...

After graduating from the University of British Columbia (UBC) Dr. Gibson entered McGill University to study medicine but interrupted his studies to go to Oxford University (as a demonstrator in physiology), where he received his doctorate. He resumed his medical studies at McGill University, graduating in 1941. After serving in the clinical investigation units of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) he became deputy director of medical research at the RCAF headquarters in Ottawa. This was the post he held when he wrote the editorial "Medical education for 1980," which is reprinted as our Encore selection for this issue, starting on page 665...