When Community Health Sciences graduate student executive members started thinking back to what was missing from their own block week orientations, the answer had a lot to do with making connections.
“As graduate students new to a program we really didn’t know what kind of landscape we were entering, how competitive it was, what people did to keep themselves sane,” says Zaheed Damani, a PhD student in the MD/PhD Leaders in Medicine program at the University of Calgary. “And we didn’t really know how to link all this research together; there are people in my field who are doing similar work, but it’s only under the most awkward circumstances that you run into each other.”
The group put their heads together last year and started brainstorming an opportunity for new graduate students to meet, network with faculty members, plan out their research paths and see how those paths might fit together to solve real world problems.
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