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2009 Salon motivation-santé

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Committed to helping citizens adopt healthy lifestyle habits

In response to a study that revealed that the life expectancy of residents of Québec City’s lower town was ten years less than that of people living in the upper town, Marie-Ève O’Reilly-Fromentin and Isabelle Samson decided to set up the Salon motivation-santé. In doing so, the two medical students from Université Laval and 90 of their fellow students went out to meet with approximately 10,000 people in the middle of a shopping centre located in the target clientele’s neighbourhood during a weekend in November 2008. In the course of the weekend, future doctors, nutritionists, kinesitherapists and other specialists set up fifteen or so kiosks where citizens flocked to seek their tips and advice. The experience helped the students realize the importance of an approach centred on the individual in their environment. It was an enriching learning experience for both the students and visitors and the odds are the event will be taken up by other students.

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Health

2009 Initiative Bénin 08

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Committed to making a lasting and positive impact on the health of Beninese

It was in the hope of providing basic medical care to the Beninese that, in 2007, medical students from McGill and the Université de Montréal set up Initiative Bénin, a project that allows trainees who wish to take some concrete action to travel to Benin. And Initiative Bénin has made a significant impact. Working at local hospitals under the guidance of Benin doctors, the student participants carried out interventions in the field of general medicine, surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics, infectious diseases and ophthalmology and even offered information sessions to help people gain a better understanding of diseases and how they are transmitted. After sending a dozen students in 2007, there were 28 in the 2008 delegation and even more in 2009. Today, students from the Université de Sherbrooke and Université Laval, as well as students from McGill’s faculty of dentistry, are also involved in the project.

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Health

2009 Osmose : ouverture à la santé mentale au secondaire

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Committed to shedding light on the dangers of mental illness

Depression, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders and schizophrenia are all well known words but they are associated with diseases that only too often are little-known. It was therefore with the aim of demystifying mental disorders among Secondary 5 students that medical students from the Université de Montréal decided to set up the Osmose project, which has so far reached out to nearly 2,000 high school students. Combining exposÈs, audiovisual material and dynamic situation scenarios, which call on student participation, the Osmose presentations enable teenagers to gain a general understanding of mental illness by learning more about the symptoms, causes, prevention methods and risk factors. Osmose also organized a Mental Health Day, an event held in November 2008, that brought together eight high calibre speakers and a hundred or so participants.

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