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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.

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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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Ivy Bourgeault speaking at a podium, in front of a College of Nursing banner.

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Health researchers, students an ‘untapped resource’ for workforce crisis

March 12, 2024 — 
Canada’s health workforce is in the midst of a crisis caused by a vicious cycle of work overload, burnout and rising attrition, Dr. Ivy Bourgeault told attendees of the 2024 Helen Glass Lecture on March 4.

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UM launches program to ignite research excellence and innovation

March 11, 2024 — 
UM has launched a new program to support groundbreaking, high-risk, high-reward research that will help solve complex challenges at home and around the world.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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A group of scientists in white lab coats.

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Pharmacy researchers shed light on how the brain processes the sense of touch

March 6, 2024 — 
Insights could pave the way for new approaches to treating neurological disorders like schizophrenia.

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

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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.

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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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