Medical Student Spotlight
Student Initiatives
Stem Cell Club
The UBC Stem Cell Club is a student initiative founded in 2011 to strengthen the quantity and quality of membership on the Canadian stem cell donor database. They are the first student-run group worldwide that has been accredited to independently run stem-cell drives.
OnExam
Students at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine have written and released a new clinical skills app called OnExam.
The Gateway Program
The Gateway Program at The Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University is a student initiative designed to connect newly arrived refugees in St. John’s with family doctors and other healthcare professionals.
Feature your own initiative!
If you have a current or past project that you’d like to have recognized and publicized by the CFMS, please contact the Vice-President Communications at [email protected].
Some questions that you may want to think about when submitting your initiative are:
- What is your initiative? Can you provide a brief description for our readers?
- What motivated you to start this initiative? What local/global need were you seeking to address? Does this need hold special significance for you?
- How did you start up the initiative? What resources or supports were you able to rely upon? What were some of the obstacles you faced, and how did you overcome them?
- How did things go/how are things going? What’s next for this project?
- What advice or guidance would you give to others seeking to start a similar inititative? (Optional: Would you be willing to provide contact info, for posting to the CFMS website?)