Medical Student Spotlight
Student Initiatives
Books with Wings
Books With Wings (BWW) is a collaborative project between Canadian students and their counterparts in Afghanistan. Donated textbooks are collected and shipped to libraries at various universities and medical schools across Afghanistan.
Feb-U-Hairy
Kathleen Callanan and Angelique Myles, both medical students at Memorial University are dubbing February as "Feb-U-Hairy" and challenging women and men to grow leg hair from Feb. 1 - Feb. 29.
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?)