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The members of the Medicine Class of 2026, all wearing white coats, stand to recite the Physician's Pledge.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Learn from your patients, distinguished alum tells new medical students

August 26, 2022 — 
Stay humble and listen to your patients, a distinguished UM alumnus told first-year students at their official welcome to medical school on Aug. 24.

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Students wearing white coats each hold a piece of paper. They are reading the Physician's Pledge.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM to welcome new medical students at White Coat Ceremony

August 24, 2022 — 
When first-year University of Manitoba medical students don their white coats at this year’s Inaugural Day Exercises and White Coat Ceremony on Wednesday, Aug. 24, the learners from a cross-section of ethnic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds will begin their journey to becoming doctors

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Berardino Petrelli, wearing a lab coat and gloves, working in the research lab.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Balancing two passions: Student pursues concurrent degrees in genetics, dentistry

August 22, 2022 — 
Berardino "Dino" Petrelli is on track to graduate as a dentist and complete his doctorate in biochemistry and medical genetics in 2023.

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Portrait of Dr. Terry Klassen.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM researchers to develop COVID-19 resources related to kids coming to Emergency

August 15, 2022 — 
A University of Manitoba project aimed at providing emergency department health-care professionals with the latest information about conditions related to COVID-19 and children has received more than $433,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

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Portrait of Dr. Kathleen Decker. A whiteboard with blue writing all over it is in the background.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM study focuses on impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care in Manitoba

August 11, 2022 — 
A University of Manitoba study focused on understanding the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on cancer care in Manitoba has received more than $439,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

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Woman sits a desk, looking at her computer screen.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Neuroscientist thrives in faculty role as researcher, teacher, mentor

August 10, 2022 — 
Alumna helps shape the minds of future researchers and pharmacists while advancing the field of neuroscience

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

PhD student chosen to network with Nobel laureates

August 9, 2022 — 
UM's Diane Tshikudi will join award-winning scientists from around the world in Germany next June to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

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Cover of Summer 2022 issue of RadyUM magazine, showing Dr. Brian Postl giving a checkup to a baby.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Longtime dean of health sciences featured in new issue of RadyUM

August 5, 2022 — 
Dr. Brian Postl, the long-serving dean of health sciences and medicine at UM, shares his retirement reflections in the latest issue of RadyUM magazine, now posted online.

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A pulse oximeter is places on the finger of a Black person

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM researchers find racial disparities in patient care associated with inaccurate medical device

August 3, 2022 — 
Dr. Barret Rush and Dr. Jennifer Ziegler have co-authored a study that has found critically ill Black, Asian and Hispanic patients receive less supplemental oxygen than white patients – a discrepancy associated with a flaw in the fingertip device used to measure oxygen in the blood

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Dr. Peter Nickerson.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Dr. Peter Nickerson appointed dean of health sciences and medicine

July 28, 2022 — 
Dr. Peter Nickerson, a prominent physician and researcher in the field of organ transplantation, has been appointed dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and dean of the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba

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