Faculty of Medicine

Deserving recipients reflect Faculty’s renewed commitment to teaching, research and innovation born out of a year of change.

Dr. Yipeng Ge gains invaluable first-hand experience providing medical care through a state of emergency during his five-year residency program in public health and preventive medicine.

Ashley Jackson, a second-year student in the MD program, has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar, one of the globe’s most prestigious awards for graduate study.

Through the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Ottawa has become the first Canadian university to endorse the Brocher Declaration, a new set of principles intended to guide policy on short-term global health work, which too often fails to consider the needs of a host community and occasionally causes more harm than good.