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Nursing students in a lab setting wearing scrubs and virtual reality headsets and hand controls reach as they work in virtual environments. Other students in the background look at computer screens.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Step into a new reality in training health professionals with RadyVerse

March 13, 2024 — 
On Friday, March 15, the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences will showcase how it will be employing virtual reality (VR) and other cutting-edge technologies to educate and train the next generation of  health-care professionals. Faculty, staff and learners from across UM are invited to experience first-hand various VR and other scenarios at stations set up in Brodie Centre atrium, 727 McDermot Avenue, from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm at the RadyVerse launch event.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Winnipeg Sun: Epilepsy in Canada: An overview of stats, impact and resources

March 11, 2024 — 
Epilepsy in Canada: An overview of stats, impact and resources

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

CBC Manitoba: It’s International Women’s Day; Best selling author Dr. Jen Gunter is in Winnipeg to talk about her new book called Blood: The science, medicine and mythology of Menstruation

March 8, 2024 — 
It's International Women's Day; Best selling author Dr. Jen Gunter is in Winnipeg to talk about her new book called Blood: The science, medicine and mythology of Menstruation

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Headshots of six Rady Faculty community members quoted in International Women's Day story.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Inspiring inclusion: Rady reflections on International Women’s Day

March 7, 2024 — 
This year’s International Women's Day theme is “Inspire Inclusion.” We asked members of UM’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences community to reflect on this theme.

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Portrait of Bolton Shay-Lee.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Awards support Rady women as emerging leaders

March 7, 2024 — 
Seven faculty members or students in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences have received The Winnipeg Foundation Martha Donovan Women’s Leadership Development Awards.

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Research and International

Brain and Gut: working together in health and disease

March 5, 2024 — 
On Wednesday March 27, 2024, join the UM Knowledge Exchange for an exploration of the connection between the brain and the gut in the context of health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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Dr. Peter Nickerson and Dr. Joss Reimer sit onstage, each holding a microphone.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Empathy all-important, health leader tells future and current physicians

March 5, 2024 — 
In medicine, truly caring about the patient matters more than in-depth knowledge, a prominent Manitoba doctor told medical students and physicians at a UM awards event.

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Dr. Tito Daodu speaks at a podium in the cover image of RadyUM magazine.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

New issue of RadyUM magazine marks medical college anniversary

March 1, 2024 — 
The cover story of the new issue of RadyUM magazine focuses on the Max Rady College of Medicine’s celebration of a milestone: its 140th anniversary.

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Portrait of Dr. James Blanchard.

UM Faces and Spaces: Dr. James Blanchard

March 1, 2024 — 
How is UM making an impact on Global Public Health? We find out in our monthly UM Faces and Spaces feature, with a profile on James Blanchard, professor of community health sciences at Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, executive director of the Institute for Global Public Health and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Public Health.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Graduate students awarded prestigious RFHS graduate studentships

February 29, 2024 — 
We’re very impressed by the calibre of students who applied this year and excited to see where their hard work and dedication will take them, says RFHS dean.

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