Sam Hogman, Island Site
Samuel Hogman is a late addition to the Victoria Emergency Medicine residency program, having made the switch from Winnipeg EM in PGY-3. He has brought with him extensive experience in trauma resuscitation, critical care, and an unmatched passion for cycling. His favourite cycling spandex is Giordana and rumour has it that he wears them under […]
Michael McCue, Island Site
Michael was born a ‘berta boy, but raised in Victoria. He’s not particularly artsy; however, you can nearly always find him working on one knitting project or another: most often warm wool sweaters in the middle of summer, because who doesn’t love a turtle neck on a hot day! Before medical school, Michael worked as […]
Katie Baas-Sylvester, Island Site
Meet Katie, the whirlwind from Nelson, BC, whose journey from nursing to medicine reads like an action-packed sitcom script. Starting out in medical and emergency nursing in the Kootenays, she decided to take the plunge and pursue an MD at the height of Covid. Despite having just finished building their dreamhouse, she uprooted the family, […]
Erin McDonagh, Island Site
Hailing from the bustling seaside metropolis of Nanaimo, B.C., Erin has always been an Island gal and feels a sense of panic when she is not within 15 minutes of an ocean. She packed her bags after high-school and set out for the big city of Victoria for her BSc. with a special focus in […]
Riley Reel, Vancouver Island Site
Riley was born and raised in Cranbrook, BC, but upon moving to Victoria eight years ago, she decided she never wanted to leave. During her time in Victoria, she has developed an emotional attachment to the ocean, pushed the limits of her max heart rate on Mount Doug, and tried every London Fog in the […]
Katie Zumwalt, Vancouver Island Site
Katie is joining us from Calgary, where she was born and raised. Growing up, Katie never stopped moving whether it was swimming in the pool, skiing in BC or just running around with friends and family. For her undergrad, Katie took a big move out east to St. FX in Nova Scotia where she studied […]
Jasmine Lam, Vancouver Island Site
Jasmine was born in Ontario but was raised in arguably the best arm of BC, Salmon Arm. She attended Queen’s University for both undergrad and medical school where she met her now fiancé, Rickey. Unfortunately, she never completed her bachelor’s degree but is thankful to have survived medical school (though there certainly were some close […]
Eva Bruketa, Vancouver Island Site
Eva joins us with a bit of mileage under her belt as she was born in Germany, lived in California, and then moved to Toronto to complete a double major in neuroscience and psychology. From there, she moved yet again for her medical school training at Queen’s University and then looked across the country to […]
Sarah Douglas, Vancouver Island Site
Sarah completed a degree in biomedical engineering at UVIC and when she was starting to get a few too many looks for talking to the robots, she decided to switch into a field with a bit more of a “human touch”. She completed her medical degree at UBC with the IMP program and decided that […]
Breezy (Brianna-Lee) Beaudry, Vancouver Island Site
Breezy joins us from the NOSM Thunder Bay campus where she completed her medical school training. Her passion for the great outdoors is only matched by her excellent taste in EDM music. As a budding star in the realm of wilderness medicine, she spends her extracurricular time engaging in what she refers to as “hands-on […]