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Doctor, Doctor
UNBC Health Sciences degree draws second-year NIC science graduates into medical careers Sylva Wiedeman has always wanted to be a doctor. The science-focused student started at NIC in 2010, with a plan to take a year of firstyear classes close to home before transferring to a bigger urban university. “I didn’t want to go too far away right out of high school and the costs, of course, were a lot lower,” Sylva said. Two years later, she’s graduating from NIC on track as the college’s top university transfer student in the math and sciences department with a clear plan to attend medical school.
NIC science graduate Sylva Wiedeman heads north to UNBC this September.
honour’s thesis and preparing her application for the Northern Medical Program in September 2013.
“All of the courses I took at NIC transferred quite nicely into something I could use for my degree,” said Camila. “We were exposed “Learning biology was more of a conversa- to so much in labs at NIC; we did our own prep work and had access to equipment that tion than a lecture,” she said. took extra time to set up. I don’t think that Along the way, Sylva discovered that by would be practical in most undergraduate taking two years of sciences at NIC, she programs.” could enter directly into the third year of her degree at UNBC, home to UBC’s Northern NIC university transfer student Christine Medical Program and some of the most rec- Law moved from NIC sciences to UNBC two years ago. She was accepted into the ognized rural medical training in Canada. Northern Medical Program this summer. The program is drawing more than just Sylva “Going to NIC was the best choice I ever north. made,” said Christine, who intends to Two years ago, NIC university transfer return to the Comox Valley to start her own student Camila Sanchez entered UNBC as medical practice after graduation. a biomedical studies major in the Health Sciences program. She’s now completing her “The transition from high school to university At NIC, Sylva found instructors and students as passionate about science as she is.
is a big step. At NIC, I was able to take advantage of small class sizes so that by the time I got to the second or third year at UNBC, class sizes were much smaller and more approachable.” Both students appreciate UNBC’s accessible research facilities, which encourage undergraduate participation and give students a chance to get more involved in their field of study. NIC offers a complete selection of first and second-year science courses that transfer to UNBC’s Bachelor of Health Sciences, including Organic Chemistry I/II (CHE 200/201), Cell Biology (BIO-200), Introductory Microbiology (BIO-215), Principles of Genetics (BIO-202), and Introduction to Biochemistry (BIO-201). Find out more: www.nic.bc.ca/ mathsciences Or call: 1-800-715-0914 page 1