college of rehabilitation sciences News Archive
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.
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.
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.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady students showcase health careers to youth through CanU
February 20, 2024 —
A team of volunteer students from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences recently completed a program welcoming over 80 youth from across Winnipeg to explore health-care careers as part of an initiative through CanU, a Winnipeg-based charitable organization.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
The Winnipeg Foundation Innovation Fund supports cutting-edge projects
February 1, 2024 —
Three interdisciplinary teams from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences have received $100,000 grants from The Winnipeg Foundation Innovation Fund to pursue leading-edge research in the areas of heart disease, phantom limb pain and Huntington’s disease.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Measuring Pickle Power
January 29, 2024 —
Sandra Webber [BMRPT/90, M.Sc./96, PhD/10], a lifelong sports enthusiast, started playing the burgeoning sport of pickleball about five years ago. Now she’s on the court three or four times per week.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Inspiring Indigenous Youth
January 8, 2024 —
Alum Christina Keeper talks about her "dream job" delivering physiotherapy to schoolchildren in seven First Nations communities.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Holiday messages from Rady Faculty deans
December 21, 2023 —
I want to wish everyone in the Faculty of Health Sciences community a joyous and restful holiday season. We're in a transformational period in the faculty as we work together with the province to address workforce shortages and begin a generational expansion of our programs.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Open house an interactive way to explore health sciences graduate studies
December 11, 2023 —
Close to 100 undergraduate students participated in the annual Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Studies Open House to watch presentations and speak with current graduate students and faculty members in 12 different graduate studies programs in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Physical therapy student promotes movement with household items
December 6, 2023 —
Second-year UM physical therapy student Amanda Shiplack believes that exercise should be seen as fun, rather than a chore. That’s the approach she used when creating a one-day event for people with cognitive and physical challenges at a local geriatric day hospital earlier this year.