Medical Student Spotlight
Student Initiatives
Western Medical Student Ultrasound Symposium
The symposium is a 2-day workshop series that provides medical students from across Canada with an introduction to bedside ultrasound.
Vitals
Vitals is a student run initiative to promote wellness in all years of undergraduate medical training. Centralizing campus and community resources, hosting workshops and raising awareness to support students in all the dimensions of wellness.
Rockin' Docs
The Rockin' Docs summer camp is a week-long summer day camp for youth ages 7-13 held at the University of Alberta. The camp's main goal was to provide a high impact, engaging health and medicine themed summer camp for 40 youth from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Feature your own initiative!
If you have a current or past project that you’d like to have recognized and publicized by the CFMS, please contact the Vice-President Communications at [email protected].
Some questions that you may want to think about when submitting your initiative are:
- What is your initiative? Can you provide a brief description for our readers?
- What motivated you to start this initiative? What local/global need were you seeking to address? Does this need hold special significance for you?
- How did you start up the initiative? What resources or supports were you able to rely upon? What were some of the obstacles you faced, and how did you overcome them?
- How did things go/how are things going? What’s next for this project?
- What advice or guidance would you give to others seeking to start a similar inititative? (Optional: Would you be willing to provide contact info, for posting to the CFMS website?)