“I’ve wanted to be a doctor since I was six. This is a dream come true for me.” Those were the words used by Jennifer Parker upon opening her own family practice in Fort St John. This is Dr. Parker’s first full week as a practicing physician and she is joined by 12 others who were in the first graduating class of the Northern Medical Program (NMP) and recently completed residencies in family practice. They are the first to fulfill the promise of the NMP: to increase the number of doctors in the North by training them here.
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