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Physicians chatting in a hallway.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Family Medicine launches peer support program to combat physician burnout

March 30, 2023 — 
New program hopes to help family physicians thrive, not just survive.

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Maizy North looks away in front of Indigenous mural.

Donor Relations

Louis Riel Bursary is helping to fuel Métis student’s goal of giving back to her community

March 24, 2023 — 
Donor funded bursaries open doors for so many students to advance their education and achieve their goals.

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The physicians and students sit at a table. Two microphones sit on the table.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Med students hold EDI conference, create space to ‘share experiences’

March 23, 2023 — 
The Manitoba Medical Students’ Association organized its first-ever conference focused on equity, diversity and inclusion in health care.

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A woman and a man wearing hooded jackets stand in a mossy area surrounded by a ring of rocks.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady health researchers receive nearly $9 million in federal support

March 20, 2023 — 
Sixteen professors in the UM Rady Faculty of Health Sciences have been awarded a total of nearly $9 million in project grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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Stethoscope on white background.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Doctors Manitoba Award winners share ties to UM medical college

March 10, 2023 — 
The UM medical school is well represented on this year’s list of Doctors Manitoba Award winners.

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Compilation of headshots of six Rady Faculty women.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Embracing ‘the beauty of diversity’ on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2023 — 
Today is International Women’s Day – a worldwide day dedicated to highlighting women’s progress and taking action to drive gender equity.

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students visiting the grad studies open house info booths

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Students explore graduate programs in health sciences at open house

March 7, 2023 — 
Interested students attended presentations on 12 health science graduate programs and spoke with current grad students and faculty members at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences’ Graduate Studies Open House on Feb. 23 on the Bannatyne campus. The annual open house offers students an in-depth look at master’s and PhD options to help them plan their potential educational and career paths.

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A standing woman is seen from behind, with one hand on her neck and one on her lower back, with both areas illuminated in red to show pain.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM-created program helps patients with chronic pain attain better quality of life

March 6, 2023 — 
A new web-based therapy program developed by a UM team helps patients shift their focus from being locked in an endless battle against pain to accepting it as a “passenger” on their life journey.

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Dr. Vidyanand Anaparti leans against a counter in a lab. He is wearing a white lab coat.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM scientist makes Arthritis Society Canada’s Top 10 Research Advances list again

March 2, 2023 — 
A Rady Faculty of Health Sciences researcher might have found a way to predict how a person with early rheumatoid arthritis will respond to treatments based on a sample of their joint lining tissue and the discovery has made Arthritis Society Canada’s Top 10 Research Advances of 2022.

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Closeup of a mother cradling a newborn baby.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Preterm births decreased during early months of pandemic, global study co-led by UM finds

February 27, 2023 — 
There was a three to four per cent relative reduction in preterm births (births before 37 weeks gestation) during the first four months of COVID-19 lockdowns, a global study co-led by UM researchers and published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour found. 

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