Medical Student Spotlight
Student Initiatives
Lindsay Leigh Kimmett Memorial Foundation
To date, the Lindsay Leigh Kimmett Memorial Foundation has raised over $625,000 for local and international initiatives, and is continuing to grow.
Birthing Babies Together
Danielle Lewis, Katie Stringer and Bailey Adams, have produced a film documentary about what it means to provide woman-centered maternity care in a system that offers choice for birthing families
Books with Wings
Books With Wings (BWW) is a collaborative project between Canadian students and their counterparts in Afghanistan. Donated textbooks are collected and shipped to libraries at various universities and medical schools across Afghanistan.
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?)