Medical Students Are Learning Early about Surgery

Nada Gawad and Michael Bond
Nada Gawad and Michael Bond are preclerkship medical students actively committed to careers in Surgery.
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Teaching medical students about surgery is one of our most important opportunities and we should pay particular attention to their wants and needs.
Our students are deciding early about their future careers and they need early active learning in surgery to try on the technology, culture and values of the surgical profession.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Calvin Law appointed Head of Surgical Oncology, Sunnybrook

In Memoriam: Ara Keresteci

Oleg Safir appointed as Director of the Surgical Skills Centre at Mt Sinai Hospital
HONOURS & AWARDS
Subodh Verma (CardSurg), in a collaboration between St. Michael’s Hospital and King Saud University received a joint U.S. patent entitled: "Method for Preventing and Treating Cardiovascular Diseases with BRCA1".

Lee Errett (CardioSurg) was named the Honorary Chair, Shandong University Cardiac Research Centre, Jinan, Shandong Province CHINA for assisting in the development and creation of its cardiac surgery program.

Mingyao Liu (ThorSurg) was awarded a 5-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Grant for the project entitled "Acute lung injury: from cellular mechanisms to molecular therapies" (2011 - 2016).

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