August 2018

A former nurse, professor of pediatrics with Dalhousie Medical School and Director of the Pediatric Palliative Care Service at the IWK, Dr. Gerri Frager has pursued one of her artistic passions on a full-time basis since her retirement in 2014.

Medical students Todd Dow, Sebastian Haupt and Mike Smyth are the founders of the Pre-clerkship Residency Exploration Program (PREP), a two-week-long elective for second-year medical students that was held for the first time this spring.

Dalhousie Medical graduate Dr. Joni Guptill has spent the last 29 years working with Doctors Without Borders - first as a frontline worker, through to her time as the head of MSF Canada, to her present role as co-ordinator of MSF's Atlantic Association Group.

As part of her Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick student Laura Faulkner traveled to Iqaluit to learn about healthcare in northern Canada.

Dalhousie University is reaching out to its students from Saudi Arabia, following reports this week that the Saudi Arabian government intends to withdraw Saudi students at Canadian universities, colleges and other schools by the end of August.

Third-year medical students Colleen O’Connor and Emma Crowley have found time during their clerkship obligations to train for the BIG SWIM, a 15 kilometre crossing of the Northumberland Strait from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island that takes place on Sunday, August 12.