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Four new one-year degrees provide a solution for students facing limited lab access.

Class of MD 2020 valedictorians Dr. Carter William Lim and Dr. Alexandre Rochon were the first in Faculty of Medicine history to deliver their address in pajamas and jeans. Hundreds of graduates, their friends, family, and faculty, celebrated uOttawa's first-ever virtual convocation ceremony on Tuesday, June 16.

MD students show resilience in the face of delayed exams, virtual classes and suspended clinical rotations.

With online education emerging as the new norm,  Faculty of Medicine professors are extending the role of technology while adapting traditional course design to meet the challenges of distance learning.

Work is in progress to create Canada's first PharmD program in French outside Quebec.

A quick response by administrators and a resilient student body have averted interruptions on the path to becoming a physician.

Clinicians, researchers and students at the Faculty of Medicine are turning their attention to helping society’s most vulnerable through the pandemic—and learning broader lessons through the experience.

Class of 2020 BSc graduate Amit Scheer is bound for Harvard after completing the Faculty of Medicine’s Translational and Molecular Medicine program, with almost a decade of cutting-edge lab experience under his belt.

An expert in the history of medicine, Dr. Susan Lamb is archiving the story of the Faculty of Medicine for its 75th anniversary.  

When Nicole Bergen arrived in Ethiopia to work on her doctoral thesis in maternal health, her equipment list included some unconventional items: lights, tripods, and cinematography cameras.

Dr. Robert Harris paused his medical studies for two years in the late 1980s to travel the world and gain experience in different health care settings. He recounts his experiences in this excerpt from his essay, first published in Memories - Faculty of Medicine 1945-1995.

Dr. Lorne Wiesenfeld, vice-dean of Postgraduate Medical Education, gives us a glimpse of life as an emergency physician during this time of pandemic.

In collaboration with Dr. Jason Wasserman, anatomical pathology residents Drs. Anthea Lafreniere and Zuzanna Gorski have built a freely accessible web tool that gives patients greater understanding of their pathology results.

Collaborating with your Faculty of Medicine peers is easy with this Microsoft Teams how-to guide

MD students get social with senior friends to break the COVID-induced isolation.