As Queen’s alumni, we know it’s often the lessons learned outside the classroom (and sometimes even on the other side of the world!) that make the biggest difference.
Just ask Eve Purdy.
Eve is a fourth-year Queen’s medical student currently in Tanzania at a community health clinic founded by Dr. Karen Yeates, who is co-director of the Queen’s School of Medicine’s Office of Global Health along with Dr. Jenn Carpenter. Eve is spending three weeks caring for patients in the clinic, which started with a focus on empowering women through health, but now cares for families as well. Travelling to rural villages as part of a medical outreach team, she’s promoting health and wellness to patients at the clinic and in rural communities who, in many cases, have never been seen by a physician.
Pandemics and disease appear all around us today, and we understand now more than ever the growing importance of a global perspective on critical health issues. Queen’s offers this perspective to the next generation of health leaders like Eve and her colleagues.
In the last four years alone, close to 100 Queen’s students have learned firsthand what it’s like to practice medicine in a different culture, with scarce resources.
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