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Medical students review curriculum to improve racial representation in learning materials

Written on March 12, 2021. Posted in News.

A group of medical students organized a review of all pre-clerkship learning materials related to dermatological conditions in the Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME) to determine whether those conditions were shown on more than just white skin. Now, they’re sharing their recommendations for change...

How Queen’s students are aiding in the COVID-19 fight

Written on April 15, 2020. Posted in News.

Queen’s students are responding to the COVID-19 crisis by providing local health care facilities and community members with the supplies they need during the pandemic. PPE Kingston Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Kingston is collecting a range of protective equipment for local medical facilities,...

Medicine Admission Award for Black Canadians goes unawarded

Written on February 7, 2020. Posted in News.

Last spring, Queen’s pledged to award incoming Black medical students $50,000 in entrance scholarships. The scholarship, which was slated to start this year, has gone unawarded so far. After being made aware of a 1918 ban on Black students enrolling at Queen’s medical school, the University established...

Queen’s medical students seek to open student-led health clinic

Written on September 27, 2019. Posted in News.

A group of second-year Queen’s medical students are working to create Kingston’s first student-run free health clinic. The students plan to call the clinic QMedCare, and will seek to provide free health screenings and basic medical care to any resident in Kingston, regardless of their citizenship status...

Queen’s asks: Who gets to be a doctor?

Written on September 27, 2019. Posted in News.

This October, 107 first-year medical students will spend three hours learning about the racist history of Queen’s School of Medicine. ‘Who gets to be a doctor?’ is a module the Queen’s School of Medicine is integrating into one of its required first-year courses, Introduction to Professional Roles. After...

Excluding Black medical students hurts the entire university

Written on October 4, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

A university has a duty to ensure it doesn’t repeat its past mistakes—especially when it makes people of colour feel unwelcome. In September, Queen’s Senate motioned to rescind a 1918 ban barring Black students from entering Queen’s medical school. While the policy hasn’t been enforced since 1965,...

Queen’s receives $3.7 million in funding towards cancer research

Written on September 30, 2016. Posted in News.

In a pair of black-gloved hands, on a stark white slide, a tumour stands in technicolor. It’s one of what’s now set to be many at Queen’s, with Thursday’s $3.7 million announcement. On the morning of Sept. 29, the University announced the multi-million dollar funding for the Ontario Molecular Pathology...

School of Medicine a brave guinea pig

Written on February 2, 2016. Posted in Editorials.

A new educational model could bring out the best in Queen’s medical school residents. In 2017, Queen’s School of Medicine will be the first Canadian medical school to adopt competency-based medical education (CBME), a system that evaluates residents on whether they’ve reached a certain level of competency...

Queen’s School of Medicine to become competency based

Written on January 29, 2016. Posted in News.

Queen’s University has committed to an innovative new style of training, education and promotion in its medical school — making it the first Canadian university to adopt the new system. The Faculty of Medicine is set to transition their resident education programs from a time-based training system...

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Medical students review curriculum to improve racial representation in learning materials

How Queen’s students are aiding in the COVID-19 fight

Medicine Admission Award for Black Canadians goes unawarded

Queen’s medical students seek to open student-led health clinic

Queen’s asks: Who gets to be a doctor?

Excluding Black medical students hurts the entire university

Queen’s receives $3.7 million in funding towards cancer research

School of Medicine a brave guinea pig

Queen’s School of Medicine to become competency based

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