Highlights from Med//E-News: The McGILL FACULTY OF MEDICINE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER

• Annual White Coat Ceremony marks transition from classroom to clinical care October 11, 2019
  The first one and a half years of medical school is a mixture of lectures and lab time.  Students then move into clinical practice, completing rotations at McGill affiliated hospitals and clinics as they prepare to  become responsible for patient care. On Friday, October 4, the Class of 2022 donned their white coats, symbolically marking this […]
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• BrainReach North travels to Cree communities to talk about Neuroscience October 10, 2019
  In October 2018 and April 2019, BrainReach North, a science outreach organization for northern Indigenous communities run by McGill University graduate students in Neuroscience, sent volunteers to Chisasibi and Waskaganish, two Cree communities in the Eeyou Istchee territory in Northern Quebec. The objective of the student volunteers is to motivate kids to learn about science […]
  Jason Clement
• Inaugural Science and Research Day at the McGill Research Centre for Cannabis October 10, 2019
  The inaugural science and research day for the McGill Research Centre for Cannabis will be held on October 17, 2019 at the RI-MUHC Atrium and Auditorium. Read more ►  
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• Neuroscience researchers team up with Cancer Computer October 10, 2019
  There’s an underlying link between cancer and brain research, and it’s not what you think. Cancer Computer recently donated and installed a high-throughput compute cluster at McGill University to support the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health. The previously used servers were donated to Cancer Computer by corporate partners upgrading their own equipment and […]
  Jason Clement
• Scientists from McGill University visit Braunschweig October 10, 2019
  A delegation of seven researchers from the leading Canadian university McGill recently spent two days at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig as part of a working visit. Based on the synergy of elements within the two organizations, HZI and McGill University are exploring opportunities to pursue collaborations in areas of mutual […]
  Jason Clement
• A passion for solving medical mysteries October 10, 2019
  Dr. Xiaoyang Liu vividly remembers the moment when her oncology research data – meticulously collected and recorded – suddenly took on another form: the face of a small child confronting a life-threatening brain tumor. “Initially during my PhD work, I was on the research side of pediatric glioblastoma…you open spreadsheets and analyze the data. But in the […]
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• To the beat of music therapy at the MGH October 10, 2019
  At the Adult Psychiatry Department of the Montreal General Hospital, music is used in all its aspects. Music therapist Dany Bouchard has been providing medical care based on the use of music and sound since 2006. "Through my activities, my goal is to encourage the self-expression and well-being of patients," says Dany, who shares the […]
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