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A program offers training and education specifically on family medicine from the start of medical school, while bypassing administrative hurdles to residency. (Shutterstock)

October 1, 2023

Family doctor shortage: Medical education reform can help address critical gaps, starting with a specialized program

Anthony Sanfilippo, Queen's University, Ontario and Jane Philpott, Queen's University, Ontario

Education has a role to play in addressing the shortage of family doctors. A new program is designed specifically for comprehensive, community-based family practice.

Sexual and gender-based violence can seem like an insurmountable problem, but interdisciplinary thinking encourages creative approaches to social change. Queen’s University students in Kingston, Ont., protest sexual assault on campuses in September 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg

September 7, 2023

How students are developing solutions to the problem of campus sexual and gender‑based violence

Rebecca Hall, Queen's University, Ontario

Faculty and university staff are embedding training to prevent gender-based and sexual violence into curricular goals of both arts and STEM classes.

Many people were excluded from Indian status. (Indigenous Services Canada)

August 7, 2022

We need a better understanding of race, ‘status’ and indigeneity in Canada

Celeste Pedri-Spade, McGill University

Challenging Indigenous identity fraud in academia must name and focus explicitly on structures of whiteness, white entitlement and settler colonialism so we don’t recreate the harms of past policies.

When people are in a group they are more likely to engage in aggressive and risky behaviours they may not normally do on their own. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg

October 29, 2021

Banning large university parties won’t work — students need to be empowered to propose change

Wendy Craig, Queen's University, Ontario and Klodiana Kolomitro, Queen's University, Ontario

To make sure what happened at Queen’s University during homecoming weekends doesn’t happen again, we need to have classroom conversations now, and make bold and innovative changes to identify long-term solutions.

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