Medical doctors are experts at treating the physical body.
But in order for patients to truly heal, doctors need to recognize other dimensions of health and give of themselves in other ways, Dr. Niigaan Sinclair said at a UM awards evening.
Summer 2022
With Honour
An Ojibway Elder called on newly graduated doctors to follow the Seven Sacred Teachings – love, courage, humility, wisdom, honesty, respect and truth – as they left the UM medical school to start their residencies.
Ventilation Investigation
A UM research team is examining how being on a ventilator affects a patient’s vascular (circulatory) system, and how those effects may be connected to organ damage beyond the lungs.
Listening to Pain
It took only one year of undergraduate pharmacy studies for Dana Turcotte [B.Sc.Pharm/05, PhD/14] to know that she wanted to pursue research.
Optimizing the NP Role
Dr. Elsie Duff [M.Ed/03] has a distinction that is unique at UM and rare in Canada: she is a nurse practitioner with a PhD.