In mid-March, during the first weeks of what would turn out to be a prolonged global shutdown, news about a severe shortage of PPE among healthcare staff emerged.
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The former NCAA football athlete and current Queen’s med student has turned his love for sport into a national health initiative that works to reduce sport-related head injuries.
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Franco Rizzuti was preparing for the COVID outbreak long before most others. As a public health and preventive medicine resident, he was working on a response plan...
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How Are You Going to Pay for Med School?
Check it out!Mélanie-Rose Frappier, a 2nd year medical student at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has been receiving a lot of positive feedback from people within her community and beyond after she wrote..
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It was a Saturday afternoon in the middle of March when the Faculty of Medicine at UBC informed its med students that they were being pulled from their clinical duties...
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Unlike other parts of the country where medical students were running PPE drives, NOSM students had not yet started a northern Ontario-wide drive yet and wanted to coordinate existing community effort
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One initiative, started by a group of med students in Toronto, has found a simple but effective way to help health care practitioners stay protected—and their program has begun to evolve...
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In the last several months, the term “going viral” has taken back its original meaning. But that doesn’t mean the pandemic hasn’t stopped social media posts from spreading quickly...
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Together with the Canadian Federation of Medical Students, we’ve compiled and summarized some of the most important financial information you need to be aware of during this exceptional time.
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In the chaotic first days of the pandemic, only one thing seemed certain: healthcare workers were about to take on a huge burden...
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As the situation with COVID-19 continues to evolve, both at home and abroad, only one thing is certain: this global pandemic is very quickly changing the way we go about our daily lives.
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From artificial intelligence, to climate change, to burrito-based economic models, we covered everything that mattered at the end of the decade.
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Procrastination is a med student's worst enemy, but we have 5 things to consider when you're thinking of putting off that important work for just a little bit longer.
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The positive effects that music has on the human brain are well-documented, so could it really help you get better grades?
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It’s only October, and you’re probably already feeling like the academic year has gotten away from you. All those promises to keep up with the material? Broken. Maintaining a healthy balance...
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Get your head back in the medical game with some tips, advice, and guidance from the experts.
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All your questions about whether or not to research, answered by someone who’s been there before
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Summer is the typical time to slow down, take vacation with family, reconnect with friends and soak up the sun – and as most Canadians know, it’s too short.
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On June 4th 2019, we hosted our first ever live webinar, all about helping the incoming class of med students understand what medical school will *really* be like.
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Paying for medical school can be expensive. Learn about government student loans and student lines of credit.
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