Everything you need to know (and then some)! Mitchell Vu – 4th year CAPS What is CAPS??!?  CAPS = Cellular Anatomical Physiological Sciences  AKA Everything about the human body  Honours Degree: Big Bad (?) Thesis!  Very small program (15-25 students in 3rd year) rd 3 Year Required Courses CAPS 390 – Human Histology CAPS 301 – Human Physiology* CAPS 303 – Third Year Lab* BIOC 301 – Biochemistry Lab BIOC 302/303 – Biochemistry Lecture BIOL 300/STAT 200 - Intro Statistics**  Many of these courses are challenging, but extremely interesting!  Room for electives! *Bread + Butter **Stats can be taken in 2nd year Take a look for yourself! BIOC 301 CAPS 301 BIOC 302 CAPS 301 Einthoven’s Triangle  Human Physiology – all systems of the body  Taught by a team of instructors/professors  One midterm, one final for a full year course  BPP provides practice exam packs Pseudohypertrophy of DMD patients Spinothalamic tract CAPS 303  3 hour labs, Thursday afternoons  Highlights: Self-electrocution, self-observation (ECG, spirometry), rat surgery, PBL-style tutorials  Lab reports – 4 or 5 per term  Ever-changing course (it’s getting better!) So where does CAPS lead?  Co-op options  Exposure to lab, formal scientific writing (reports, thesis)  What you’re all waiting for: Medical School  2014 Grad year: 7 / 16 in med (44%)  2015 Grad year: 3 / 15 in med (20%)  Compare this to 14.9% overall acceptance of UBC (2013) Personal Experience  Labs are fantastic (10/10 would recommend)  Lab reports, well, not so much.  Small groups -> Great friends Some days you might feel like: But after it all...you’ll feel like: Interested? Have some resources!  Official Website (Requirements, contacts, application form):  http://cps.med.ubc.ca/undergraduate/  UBC Calendar Entry:  http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/vancouver/index.cfm?tree= 12,215,410,435  Questions for a current CAPS student?  Come ask or email me ([email protected]) :D