Author: CMAJ

Jun 18 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Public response to Southeast Asian refugees in Canada (1979-1980): the legacy of private sponsorship and lessons for refugee health care

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Ruth Chiu is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at McMaster University   From 1975 to 1980, over two million Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian refugees fled from Communist states to refugee...

Jun 14 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The value of art in medical education

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Hassan Hazari is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   The inclusion of arts and humanities in medical curricula has been a standard part of...

Jun 11 2018

Student Humanities Blog

But neither stops the song

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Zeenat Junaid is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Bahria University in Pakistan   I checked his file again and looked up to see the patient with a tube hanging...

Jun 07 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Maud & Mulligan

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Corinne Boudreau is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto   In 2015, I moved from the tiny New Brunswick town of Sackville to...

Jun 04 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Strangers to friends: how do we build trust in medicine?

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Nauman Malik is a Radiation Oncology Resident (R1) at the University of Toronto   As I finish my first year of residency in Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto,...

May 31 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Corpse

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Beatrice Preti is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at Queen’s University       It was the strangest of days when I met him first Everything jumping from awful to worse People were...

May 28 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Doing Harm

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne/HarperCollins...

May 24 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Minutes, milligrams, and millilitres

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Arjun Sharma is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto   Picture a physician on a hospital ward at the day’s peak. He jumps from one task to...

May 21 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Is the Canadian medical education system broken on both ends?

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Betel Yibrehu is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. She is interested in medical...

May 17 2018

Student Humanities Blog

White vans, white coats, and the human desire for meaning

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Imaan Javeed is a medical student at the University of Toronto   On Monday, April 23, while driving on Yonge Street near Finch Avenue in Toronto, it’s alleged that Alek Minassian...

May 14 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Outside the walls of the hospital: reflections on doing an MPH during residency

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Ameer Farooq is a General Surgery Resident (R3) at the University of Calgary who completed his Master of Public Health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health...

May 07 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Still healing

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Sarah Hanafi is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Alberta   In healthcare, we sometimes hear the saying, “I went home thinking about that patient.” I thought I...

May 03 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Apprehensive about the future of the spirit-healer’s fragile stone

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Jonathan Oore is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Dalhousie University   Artist’s Statement for Milgwija’sit Puoin An’stawe’g Wuguntew or Apprehensive about the future of the spirit-healer’s fragile stone This...

Apr 30 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Life on the Ground Floor

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   Life on the Ground Floor(Doubleday Canada, 2017) Dr. James Maskalyk describes emergencies “as a sign of life taking...