Facts & Achievements
Accomplishments and Distinctions
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Dalhousie ophthalmology researchers unlocked a 50-year mystery of how the retina senses motion |
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One of the most significant cancer research discoveries – the capability of reovirus to infect and kill cancer cells – was made by Dalhousie researchers |
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Internationally-recognized faculty in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education |
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Affiliated with more than 111 teaching sites, including nine teaching hospitals, throughout the Maritime provinces |
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One of the first medical schools in Canada to offer distributed learning for Postgraduate Medical Education |
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Established the first Continuing Medical Education program in Canada, in the 1940s |
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Established Canada's first master's program in Medical Informatics |
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World-renowned Medical Humanities Program, including music-in-medicine and artist-in-residence |
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Emphasis on Bioethics and Health Law throughout curriculum |
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Dalhousie clinical faculty were involved in the world's first robotic brain telesurgery, which was performed in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Saint John, New Brunswick |
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Breakthrough discovery by Dalhousie clinical researchers changed prevailing theory about chronic rejection of heart transplants |
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Established the first province-wide endeavour in Canada aimed at making major changes in the approach to heart disease (ICONS - Improved Cardiovascular Outcomes in Nova Scotia) |
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For two years running (2002-03 and 2003-04) Dalhousie medical researchers were awarded coveted Peter Lougheed/Canadian Institutes for Health Research Awards, the top award given by the Canadian Institute for Health Research to new Canadian investigators |
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Dalhousie Medical School researchers invented the first new class of antibiotics to come along in 30 years |