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Restructuring priorities for medical school students could address inequities in healthcare distribution

Written on January 25, 2022. Posted in Editorials.

Issues with the distribution of healthcare in Canada is no secret—in 2020, only eight per cent of the country’s 92,173 practicing physicians were serving rural communities. Although medical schools aren’t the sole root of the problem, they have the potential to influence the priorities of new graduates...

Queen’s medical students talk EDII research

Written on November 19, 2021. Posted in News.

Two Queen’s medical students are researching equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDII) in medical school educational curricula in a student research initiative funded by the Faculty of Health Sciences. Researchers Simran Sandhu and Ishita Aggarwal, both Med ’23, believe EDII integration...

Queen’s medical student leads initiative supporting rural Canadians

Written on May 28, 2020. Posted in News.

Medical students across Canada have teamed up to support Canadians living in rural and isolated communities during COVID-19. The Rural & Isolated Support Endeavor (RISE) is an initiative created by a working group of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC). The group aims to address...

News in Brief

Written on March 1, 2019. Posted in News.

Aesculapian Society to depart from AMS, join SGPS Last week, medical students in the Aesculapian Society voted to become a member society of the SGPS. Effective Sept. 1, 2019, the Society will depart from the AMS and join the SGPS. In an AMS statement released Thursday, AMS President Miguel Martinez...

Queen’s Takes the Real World: An unexpected detour to med school

Written on February 1, 2019. Posted in Columns.

Every medical student has a story of what they were doing when they first got their university acceptance: how they celebrated, who they immediately shared the news with, and how they felt relieved and rewarded for their hard work. I wish I had that. Instead, acceptance to medical school came with...

Queen’s places fifth in Maclean’s 2019 ranking

Written on October 15, 2018. Posted in News.

Out of the 15 Medical Doctoral schools in Maclean’s 2019 university ranking, Queen’s came in at fifth place. The University of Toronto and McGill University tied for the top spot, followed by UBC and McMaster, in the magazine’s rankings released last Thursday. Maclean’s divides universities into three...

Patient abuse needs to be in focus at medical schools

Written on March 9, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

Currently, Canadian medical schools are taking a step in the right direction by trying to incorporate how doctors should interact with their patients into the curriculum. Despite this, there needs to be more of a focus on teaching medical students to recognise inappropriate behaviour in their colleagues...

Queen’s medical school’s prejudicial past

Written on February 6, 2018. Posted in Features.

Although Queen’s was one of the first schools in Canada to accept women into their medical school, they were also the first to systemically expel them. The climate on Queen’s campus was particularly inhospitable to women in the 1880s. According to a 1997 article by the Canadian Medical Association...

You can’t quantify personality

Written on February 10, 2017. Posted in Editorials.

Grading a test is a lot easier than grading someone’s personality. According to researchers at Western University, Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores and grade point averages (GPA) are given too much weight over personality when considering which students should be offered admission to...

Bringing to life a curriculum around assisted death is the first step

Written on September 16, 2016. Posted in Editorials.

It’s a difficult subject to talk about, but the contentiousness of physician-assisted death may be all the more reason to normalize education around it. In June, federal legislation was introduced that legalized and regulated medical assistance in dying. Although students may still be divided on...

Doctoring a different path

Written on September 16, 2016. Posted in Features.

Traditionally medical students exclusively came from science backgrounds. However, due to evolving admission requirements for medical schools, the background of these students is at its most diverse. Dr. John Boyd, an assistant professor of neurology and critical care at Queen’s took a slightly unconventional...

KGH and Hotel Dieu integration to have minimal impact on medical school

Written on August 2, 2016. Posted in News.

June 28 saw a historic merger between two local hospitals: Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital. For students of the Queen’s medical school, the newly amalgamated corporation is expected to have minimal repercussions on their residencies and placements in either institution. According...

Professor claims Queen’s owes over $11.5 million for expropriation

Written on June 6, 2016. Posted in News.

In an ongoing Ontario Municipal Board case, a Queen’s professor is accusing the University of taking her properties without proper compensation, with damages in the case exceeding $11.5 million. The case, which has been filed under the Expropriations Act, was received by Environment and Land Tribunals...

A grave history

Written on October 29, 2013. Posted in Features.

When someone’s buried six feet under, it’s assumed they’re dead and gone. However, a century of Kingston’s devious body-snatching history would tell you otherwise. The city was one of Canada’s epicentres for body-snatching from around 1820 into the 1920s. Its prevalence peaked in the 1880s, and dwindled...

Faculty Board proposes accelerated medical school

Written on May 28, 2012. Posted in News.

If a proposed new program passes at Senate, select students could proceed to medical school at Queen’s after only two years of undergraduate education. The proposal for the accelerated program was approved by Arts and Science Faculty Board on May 4. The program is the brainchild of Dr. Richard Reznick,...

Program performs

Written on October 21, 2011. Posted in News.

A program within the School of Medicine has saved itself. After facing the possibility of losing accreditation, the School of Medicine’s internal medicine residency program was given a two-year timeline to improve. It received an ‘intent to withdraw’ status from its accrediting bodies in 2005. If...

New med building opens

Written on September 27, 2011. Posted in News.

The Queen’s School of Medicine completed a new $77-million home at the corner of Arch and Stuart Streets. The building had its grand opening on Sept. 22, with approximately 400 alumni, students and faculty in attendance. The four-storey building will support a new patient-focused curriculum. Students...

Tag: medical school

Restructuring priorities for medical school students could address inequities in healthcare distribution

Queen’s medical students talk EDII research

Queen’s medical student leads initiative supporting rural Canadians

News in Brief

Queen’s Takes the Real World: An unexpected detour to med school

Queen’s places fifth in Maclean’s 2019 ranking

Patient abuse needs to be in focus at medical schools

Queen’s medical school’s prejudicial past

You can’t quantify personality

Bringing to life a curriculum around assisted death is the first step

Doctoring a different path

KGH and Hotel Dieu integration to have minimal impact on medical school

Professor claims Queen’s owes over $11.5 million for expropriation

A grave history

Faculty Board proposes accelerated medical school

Program performs

New med building opens

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