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Drs. Kaitlyn Lopushinsky (MD) and Mallory McNiven (MD) are the first medical residents to complete the USask pediatrics residency program at the Regina campus. (Photo: Submitted)

Peppermint mochas and supportive staff: First USask Regina-based pediatrics residents reflect on residency

In 2019, two University of Saskatchewan (USask) medical residents began their journey to become pediatricians.

A new residency program in medical oncology will give post-graduate medical students an opportunity to train in cancer care. (Photo: David Stobbe)

Saskatchewan to launch new medical oncology residency program

REGINA – Medical residents interested in cancer care will have the opportunity to train at home for the first time in Saskatchewan’s history.

From left, USask alumni Drs. Dorian Kristmanson, Jackie Ferguson, Erin Kot and Sarah Smith practice at Maternity Wellness on Victoria where they also teach students. (Photo: Amanda Symynuk)

USask OB-GYN alumni build their practice in Regina

For Drs. Erin Kot and Jackie Ferguson, graduates of University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Medical Doctor (MD) and Obstetrics and Gynecology programs, building their clinic in Regina...

From left, Emergency Medicine provincial department head Dr. James Stempien (MD) and EM resident Dr. Lauren Roberts (MD) discussed the creation of the Provincial Emergency Medicine Journal Club to connect medical faculty and residents across Saskatchewan. (Submitted photos)

Provincial Emergency Medicine Journal Club encourages collaboration between residents, physicians

As provincial head of the Department of Emergency Medicine, one of Dr. James Stempien’s (MD) goals is to encourage front-line emergency medicine (EM) providers to communicate with ...

Dr. Rob Woods (MD) is the director for the emergency medicine residency program in USask’s College of Medicine and an emergency medicine and transport physician in Saskatoon. Dr. Mary Kinloch (MD) works at Saskatoon City Hospital and is an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at USask. Dr. Bhanu Prasad (MD) is a Regina-based nephrologist and a clinical associate professor in USask’s College of Medicine. (Photos: Submitted)

Rewards of teaching and research go beyond sharper clinical skills for USask medical faculty

Dr. Rob Woods (MD) recalls working a shift with a fifth-year emergency medicine resident about a year ago. A new staff physician who’d been a resident the year before was just fini...

Growing postgraduate medical education to meet Saskatchewan health-care needs

Dr. Preston Smith (MD) likes to remind people that medicine is unlike any other field—because learners graduate fully equipped to start practice the next day.