OMSA Medical Student of the Month of October 2016 - Chintan Dave
Meet Chintan Dave (Queen's University), our student of the month for October 2016!
Meet Chintan Dave (Queen's University), our student of the month for October 2016!
Meet Lauren Welsh (Queen's University), our student of the month for January 2016!
Meet Gerhard Dashi (Queen's University), our student of the month for December 2015!
Meet Sarah-Taissir Bencharif (Queen's University), our student of the month for October 2015!
Sarah is an enigmatic individual who lives on the bright side. She radiates positivism, making no task seem too daunting or impossible likely because she, herself, has some truly amazing achievements in her lifetime.
The summer before medical school is a perfect time to relax – unless you're Erica McKenzie, Queen's Medicine class of 2018, whose whirlwind summer took her from Harvard to the Himalayas.
You may know that as a Ontario medical student you are already a member of OMSA. However, did you know that OMSA is organized by fellow Ontario medical students as well? ...Yeah, maybe you do, it's on our website after all. But how much do you really know about the OMSA Exec, particularly the two Co-Chairs?
I woke up on Thursday September 18th to the most incredible mix of anticipation and disbelief. It was actually here. This was the day that an incredible team of Queen's students had relentlessly planned and worked towards for the better part of 2 years. It was the beginning of the Canadian Federation of Medical Students Annual General Meeting 2014 - and we were the hosts! Later that night, as I left the first meeting of CFMS representatives, I saw a group of what I later learned were University of Toronto
Last Friday I had the opportunity to meet a palliative care patient in the community. She was a soft-spoken elderly woman suffering from metastatic colon cancer. Her story was heartbreaking and made me think more deeply about how I will live my life to its fullest. The most disappointing surprise of that experience was that the visit ran as I expected it to.
On Monday April 14th, over 40 medical students from across Ontario arrived at Queen’s Park to meet with Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) and discuss the importance of health human resources (HHR).
On my way to my first OMSA Lobby Weekend session on Saturday morning, I found myself reflecting on previous advocacy conversations I've had with political representatives.