Postgraduate residents
Postgraduate residents enrolled in family medicine, specialty and subspecialty training programs at the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and postgraduate residents from other universities wishing to complete an elective in BC must be licensed with CPSBC.
Types of licences
Educational - postgraduate (resident) class
For postgraduate residents enrolled in family medicine or one of the 77 specialty and subspecialty training programs at the UBC Faculty of Medicine.
Postgraduate residents who meet certain criteria may be authorized to provide supplementary services, under supervision, for patients receiving a service within a health authority in a clinical academic centre affiliated with the UBC Faculty of Medicine. They may also use the title “resident – clinical associate” during this time.
Learn more about the requirements for postgraduate residents
Learn more about the requirements for the clinical associate licence
Educational - postgraduate (resident elective) class
For postgraduate residents from other universities wishing to complete a postgraduate visiting elective in BC through the UBC Faculty of Medicine.
Learn more about the requirements for postgraduate resident electives