2010/10/04:
The new year
The
website hasn't been updated in a while, but a new one should be in the
works soon. In the meanwhile, look to these upcoming events!
Monday Oct. 18th, 5-7 PM in Thomson House
Philosopher's Cafe with Dr. Derek Ruths (Topic TBD)
Wednesday Oct. 27th , 5:30-7:30 PM
The Osler Hour at Gertz Bar
Tuesday Nov. 2nd, 5-7 PM in Thomson House
Philosopher's Cafe with Dr. Brian Greenfield
- Borderline Personality Disorder
2010/03/21:
March 24th - Phil's Cafe with Dr. Hofmann
There was a little bit of confusion and our last Cafe was with Dr. Derek Ruths on privacy. It'll soon be posted on the events page.
Our next Cafe is bomastically titled: "How private, for-profit healthcare in Canada is stealing your money and killing your neighbour", from the ever insightful and occasionally hilarious Dr. Hofmann!
Check out more details on the events page!
Title: "How private, for-profit healthcare in Canada is stealing your money and killing your neighbour"
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: Thompson House Restaurant (Basement)
2010/03/2:
March 11th - Come to the Osler Hour!
Please
join us as we raise funds for the Montreal Children's Hospital! First
20 pitchers are on us! We'll have food this time as well.
Check out more details on the events page!
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Thompson House Restaurant (Basement)
March 15th - Phil's Cafe with Dr. Hofmann
Join
us for our second Philosopher's Cafe with Dr. Hofmann, on the great
Canadian debate of our day - public vs. private healthcare.
Check out more details on the events page!
Title: "Private, for-profit medicine: myths and controversies"
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: Thompson House Restaurant (Basement)
2010/02/24:
Philosospher's Cafe with Dr. Somerville
Join
us for our first Philosopher's Cafe of the semester with Dr.
Somerville, on the topic of euthanasia! Monday, 5-6:30 PM, Thompson
House Basement
Check out more details on the events page!
2010/02/09:
Osler Hour:
A
central tenet of effective healthcare delivery is team work. The
hospital staff strives to work synergistically to provide efficient and
exemplary care. In this vein, medical schools and teaching hospitals
across the country have been emphasizing team building exercises while
investigating what builds successful chemistry among healthcare
professionals. The McGill Osler Society, founded in 1921, aims to
address this challenge with its new Osler Hour series. A monthly
meeting of the minds and mugs, the Osler Hour was conceived to forge
partnerships among future health practitioners of the Province-namely
students in the different Health Science Faculties. In addition to
providing networking opportunities, the Osler Hour is a fundraising
mechanism for local health-related charities.
Check out our first one on the events page!
2010/01/07:
New Year!
Welcome to a wonderful new year!
(1) Our Shadowing Schedule has been updated
Two updates are forthcoming:
(2) A new batch of executives are now at the helm of the Osler Society! (Except for yours truly, who is irreplaceable, clearly.)
(3) A wonderful new activity has been introduced, the Osler Hour. The first was yesterday, and updates will soon come.
2009/11/09:
Massive update
(1) The French Clinic presentations have been updated. See our Readings and Downloads Page. You will now need to have gone to a Clinic to access these.
(2) Events have been updated.
For a club as active as us, a month with no updates means I was
ridiculously behind. Now you can check out all the awesome things that
have happened!
(3) We had our annual Osler Banquet and Lecture with Dr. Thomas Pogge on November 4th. Wait for our updates and photos!
(4) Our next event is another Philosopher's Cafe with Dr. Barney, on whether more information in medicine is always a good thing.
3rd Philosopher's Cafe, Fall 2009 - October 1st 5 PM Thompson House Basement
Our third Cafe will be moderated by the Philosopher Dr. Blattberg, and the topic will be "Is a Just War a contradiction in terms?"
The
Philosopher's Cafes are perhaps the most distinctive and popular Osler
Society activity, where 20-40 students from all walks and ways join
together for lively discussion of topics - controversy, immediacy, and
fascination guaranteed. The Cafes are moderated by an expert in the
topic, who is expected (and will) take sides, give opinions, and push
us to think, argue, and question our assumptions and limits.
See our events page for more details!
2009/09/12:
Second Philosopher's Cafe - Dr. Andre Costopouls: "Do human decisions matter?"
2nd Philosopher's Cafe, Fall 2009 - Sept. 24th 5 PM Thompson House Basement
Our second Cafe will be moderated by the Anthropologist Andre Costopoulos, and the topic will be "Do human decisions matter?"
See our events page for more details!
2009/09/9:
First Philosopher's Cafe
1st Philosopher's Cafe, Fall 2009 - Sept. 10th 5 PM Thompson House
Our first Cafe will be moderated by the Philosopher Greg Mikkelson, and the topic will be "How special are humans? Doing justice to all 10 million species on Earth"
See our events page for more details!
All in all it is shaping up to be an exciting year. Our banquet still awaits,
and with the turn around of medical students as fast as it is, we are
always on the look out for helping hands, enthusiasm, and exciting
ideas. As a club our focus is medical humanities and their application
in clinical medicine, if you want to be on board one of the coolest
clubs in McGill Med - let us know - our email is oslersociety.mcgill@gmail.com.
Our Shadowing program
has been completely revamped! If you are a Med-1 or Med-2
(priority for Med-1's) who want to shadow a doctor, whether you want to
be in the ER with a psychiatric patient, or with a
cardiologist on life-saving rounds, or an general internalist puzzling
together complex pieces of a patient history, chances are we have what
you need. For in-depth understanding of each speciality, we recommend
that you seek out your own contacts for extended periods of shadowing,
but we are where you can get your foot in the door and find first
exposure. See
the details on our Shadowing page.
1st Osler Society Lecture Series - Sept. 3rd 5 PM Thurs Osler Library
Dr. Faith Wallis "The Hippocratic Oath" &
Chris Lyons' Osler Library Tour
Come
for our first major event of the year! This is always a bestseller
lecture and tour, and you will discover what the Hippocratic Oath
really means to the people and place of Hippocrate's day, and its
continued influence on modern doctors. Moreover, you will
find all the gems at the Osler Library that will make your McGill
experience truly unique; whether you're looking for original Vesalius or the ashes of Sir William Osler himself, it's all here - see our Events page for more details!
2009/06/01: Osler Society Lecture Series: June 9th 5 PM Osler Library
Barbara
Brookes is a Professor of History and head of Department at University
of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her focus is the history of women,
especially the history of women in medicine - so come to hear about how
the ladies have went from being seriously trampled on, to being the
majority in medical school today!
Details on Events page!
Date: June 9th 2009
Time: 5 PM
Place: Osler Library, 3rd floor McIntyre
Please RVSP at oslersociety.mcgill@gmail.com by Monday, June 8th!
2009/05/25: Osler Society Movie Night- June 11th 5 PM Thompson House
Phew, after a massive amount of Osler Society activities in the past two weeks (fully updated on the Events page!), including two powerful lectures and an explosive discussion, the website is finally keeping up.
We welcome you on June 11th to come for a movie night, for a change of pace! The movie to be screened is Grave of the Fireflies,
commonly thought to be the greatest anime (Japanese animation) ever
made. It is about Japan in the aftermath of World War II. Bring tissue
paper.
Date: June 11th 2009
Place: Thompson House Basement (3650 McTavish)
Time: 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Movie: Grave of the Fireflies (anime)
Come to expose yourself to a new genre, or just to experience some amazing art that distills the human experience!
2009/05/11: Osler Society Philosopher's Cafe - May 12th 5 PM Thompson House
I've
been away a little while, sorry for the lack of updates! But great
Osler Society activities are continually happening. Join us TOMORROW for a Osler Lecture Series event from Dr. Steven Davis, on the topic:
Ethiopia: 80 million people; 1500 doctors. Rwanda: 9 million people; 250 doctors. What can we do to help?
Date: Tuesday, May 12th
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: Thompson House 404
Refreshments will be available as usual
Then on May 21st, join us for another blockbuster debate, led by Dr. Margaret Somerville, a previous and popular, if controversial, guest. This Philosopher's Cafe will be tantalizingly entitled:
Crisis
of conscience: should health-care professionals park their values at
the door?
Date: Thursday, May 21th
Time: 5pm
Location: Thompson House basement (3650 McTavish)
2009/03/23: Osler Society Philosopher's Cafe - March 26th 5 PM Thompson House
Come have your mind bent, broken, then blasted away as usual at our awesome Philosopher's Cafes!
Date: Thursday, March 26th 2009
Time: 5 PM
Place: Thompson House (3650 McTavish)
Topic: "Are we going extinct or exploding? How do we achieve
a sustainable population?"
Moderator: Dr. Shelley Clark, McGill dpt of
Sociology
See our events for more details.
Upcoming cafés (Thursdays, 5pm, Thompson House):
April 2 "Should we care about health inequality? Whose
responsibility is it?"
Moderated by Dr. Nicholas King, McGill dpt of
Medicine, Bioethics Unit
Hope to see you all there!
2009/03/08: Osler Society Philosopher's Cafe - March 12th 5 PM Thompson House
After the incredible success of both events last week, Osler Society is proud to present our 5th Philosopher's Cafe!
Date: Thursday, March 12th 2009
Time: 5 PM
Place: Thompson House (3650 McTavish)
Topic: "Black Humour:
Good, Bad or Indifferent?"
Moderator: Dr. Jeff Wiseman, McGill dpt of
Medicine
See our events for more details.
2009/02/28: Osler Society Lecture Series (March 3rd 5 PM) and Philosopher's Cafe (March 5th 5 PM)
Two huge Osler society activities this week!
(1) Falling through the Cracks: When Medicare is Not an Option: join us with Ms. Rachel Heath Lalond on Tuesday 5 PM in Thompson House Room 406 for a serious reflection on the thousands of Quebeckers who live without the benefit of Medicare.
(2) Next, our discussions are as lively and as stimulating as usual in our Philosopher's Cafe this Thursday 5 PM in Thompson House Basement, when Dr. Deslauriers moderates the discussion: Is Gender in our Bodies?
2009/02/14: Next Phil's Cafe Feb 26th 5 PM, Thompson House Basement
The success continues! With turn outs of 30+ enthusiastic
palm rubbing philosophers each round, we are extremely happy to present
our next:
Date: Thursday, February 26th
Time: 5pm
Location: Thompson House basement
(3650 McTavish)
See events for more details
2009/02/08: Next Phil's Cafe Feb 12th 5 PM, Thompson House Basement
Following the incredible success of our last Phil's Cafe, we are proud to present the next one:
Date: Thursday, February 12th
Time: 5pm
Location: Thompson House basement
(3650 McTavish)
See events for more details
2009/02/04: A New Hope & Phil's Cafe Feb 5th 5 PM Thompson House Basement
After a long hiatus, the website has revived and a new generation of Oslerites have come to the fore. Welcome to a new Lecture Series and a fascinating Philosopher's Cafe series,
French workshops (look out for announcement in class), and a myriad of
activities! The flame of medical humanities, and indeed, that of
medical wisdom, will prosper with their turn. Meet them here!
Among
the best new ideas from this new gang is a philosopher's Cafe, where
students and professors will freely speak and exchange ideas on
important and complex issues. The first will be:
Date: Thursday, February 5th
Time: 5pm
Location: Thompson House basement
(3650 McTavish)
See events for more details