Jan 26 2018

Reflections

A 360 Degree View of Organ and Tissue Donation

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Meagan Mahoney is a pediatric intensivist at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary Jennifer Woolfsmith is Mackenzy’s mom Matthew Weiss is a pediatric intensivist at the Centre Mère-Enfant Soleil du CHU...

Jan 25 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The patient experience and the coming of a new physician

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Cathy Li is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Toronto   “Doctor, what do you recommend for my grandmother’s pancreatic tumour?” My heart was fluttering nervously as...

Jan 22 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Overdosed

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Usman Khan is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa Tharshika Thangarasa is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa...

Jan 17 2018

Reflections

A community-based program to support refugees and engage medical students

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Mandi Irwin is a family physician at the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Newcomer Health Clinic, in Halifax, NS Elizabeth Munn is a medical student at Dalhousie University   Hamid Abdihalim...

Jan 16 2018

Doctor Mom

Doctor Mom reflects on her son’s experience of peer victimization

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Doctor Mom is a physician who lives in Ontario   This week CMAJ published a research study looking at how peer victimization in early childhood is related to mental health...

Jan 11 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Homelessness and health: an elective experience

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Maria Powell is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at the University of Calgary who graduated from medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2017   Admittedly, my social histories used to consist...

Jan 08 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The end of the long adolescence

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Sterling Sparshu is an Early-Career Physician who graduated from medical school and completed their residency at the University of Calgary in 2017   As I graduate from my residency program, I...

Jan 04 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Mount Everest

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Eleni Levreault is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa       They said medicine, when you begin, Is like staring Mount Everest in...

Jan 01 2018

Student Humanities Blog

For the love of surgery

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Hely Shah is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Alberta   As a medical student in pre-clerkship, I was known to my classmates as...

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...