Month: December 2017

Dec 28 2017

Student Humanities Blog

Family medicine, home visits, and holistic care

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Yipeng Ge is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa   Having completed a handful of family medicine preceptorships and a few electives, I have...

Dec 25 2017

Student Humanities Blog

An ode for a night ward

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Ashleigh Frayne is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Calgary       My neck aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My mind, as though...

Dec 22 2017

Reflections

50 years of education and research at MUN’s Faculty of Medicine

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Margaret Steele is the Dean of Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) Jim Rourke is a Professor of Family Medicine and a former...

Dec 21 2017

Student Humanities Blog

The hearing

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Jason Gencher is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Toronto   Today is the day. I have waited six months for today. I’m so tired,...

Dec 18 2017

Student Humanities Blog

60 minutes

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Tharshika Thangarasa is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa       You wait, And enter. You have 60 minutes to speak. To expose the...

Dec 14 2017

Student Humanities Blog

Fainting in the OR on Rwandan Liberation Day

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Jessica Bryce is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at Western University   On July 4th, 2016, I fainted in the OR. It was the beginning of my clinical...

Dec 12 2017

Medical Dispatches

White Coat Warm heArt: unleash your inner artist

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Dr. Carol Ann Courneya is an Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the University of British Columbia For the past eight years, the Canadian Conference in Medical Education (CCME) has...

Dec 11 2017

Student Humanities Blog

Why all healthcare providers should experience being a patient

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Mei Wen is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto   Last week, I was at the eye clinic at a downtown hospital as a medical...

Dec 07 2017

Student Humanities Blog

In the face of death

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Noren Khamis is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of British Columbia   Long before starting medical school, I wondered how I would react to the...

Dec 04 2017

Student Humanities Blog

Holding fast

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Grace Zhang is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Queen’s University       [For my Grandmother] we don’t talk much these days (which is mostly my fault,...