MeduCurrent

Guest speaker Renee Thomas-Hill from the Mohawk Nation Turtle Clan from the Six Nations of Grand River Territory discusses her thoughts on Indigenous healthcare, how to incorporate Indigenous beliefs and values into a modern healthcare system, historical events, and the impact of COVID-19.

On this month's episode, we have Ishana Maini, a graduate student in the Public Health program at Queen's University and Emily Panousis, a student researcher working on tracking SARS-CoV-2 in the community. This episode focuses on COVID-19 and how researchers go about tracking it, surveilling spread, and analyzing the pandemic's trajectory. 

On this episode, we have student researcher Hallie Rodney who works with narrative medicine on changing bipolar attitudes and S. Mishra who works with the McMaster Student Wellness Centre to discuss various topics surrounding mental health and wellness. If you are seeking mental health support, we have listed a couple of resources below: 

The MeduCurrent's first episode features guest speakers: Dr. Ali Eshaghpour (internal medicine resident and McMaster medical school class of '21), Rishi Bansal (McMaster medical school class of '23), and Shadi Sadeghian (McMaster medical school class of '24). On this episode, we discuss medical school admissions, academics, the effect that the pandemic has had on medical school and the healthcare system, work-life balance, research, and motivations/inspirations for working in medicine. 

Music Credits: Jeffrey Ong 

Cover Art Credits: Madeline Chan