Events

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Virtual

Studies have shown that most individuals who live outside the ‘binary’ definition of gender accumulate greater mental stress than their cisgender counterparts. This disparity is also reflected in healthcare, where the lack of research, combined with biased learning material, continues to isolate vulnerable and equity-deserving communities. Medical textbooks have largely perpetuated the notion that biological sex and gender are synonymous, and that the male body can sufficiently represent the anatomy of all humans. Not surprisingly, anyone outside this narrowly-defined ‘norm’, including cisgender women, will inevitably face some form of inequity in healthcare. The absence of gender-qualified data, along with limited knowledge of gender-related issues among medical staff, can inflict secondary injuries on patients and impede disease diagnosis and treatment.

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Friday, September 24^th, 2021
Starting at 12:00 p.m.
Virtual Event

Abstract submissions for either poster or oral presentations are open to all University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine graduate and undergraduate students (i.e. TMM students), postdoctoral fellows, and medical students. The scientific committee will evaluate abstracts and select amongst top-ranked abstracts.

Abstract submission deadlines:

For an oral presentation: 5:00 p.m. on August 1

For a poster presentation: 5:00 p.m on August 22

Event highlights:

• Keynote address – speaker to be announced
• Trainee oral and poster presentations
• Prizes to recognize the best Anglophone and Francophone Oral and Poster Presentations
• Option of publication of peer-reviewed abstracts in a Special Edition of the University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine

If you have any questions, please email Catherine Dumoulin