The first of what will undoubtedly be a series, the First Annual McGill Biomedical Graduate Conference, also known as the Meeting of the Minds, was organized by nine graduate students at McGill University. The conference, which distinguished itself by its quite exceptional nature in that it was the first to bring together, in a single event, research students from all areas of biological and biomedical sciences at McGill University, was the ideal opportunity to share scientific expertise and knowledge. Over 200 enquiring minds from the university as well as from outside research institutes turned up for a day punctuated by numerous lectures and presentations. A comprehensive event which has not only enabled the exchange of knowledge, it has also prompted our expert researchers to make use of some of their other skills such as organization and public speaking!
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It was when they became aware of the current state of the health system and its possible impact in the future that thirteen students in Kinesiology at the Université Laval found the initiative and courage to set up and bring to fruition a project for creating a student kinesiology clinic. The clinic not only had to ensure the well-being and health of the population, it also had to heighten public awareness of the benefits of physical activity and thus encourage people to consider the activities they already enjoyed from a completely new angle. Moreover, while working entirely along the same lines as the Commission d'étude sur les services de santé et les services sociaux, these future kinesiologists understood that prevention is often the essential element in constant physical well-being. It was thus from this perspective that, as well as to having offered a professional service and additional professional experience for numerous kinesiology students, they have contributed to increasing the social involvement of their discipline.
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Prevention through information is the essence of the journal The Health Link, a tool conceived and created by four students in Nursing at McGill University. The journal was developed in order to counter the lack of information on health matters they had found chiefly in several elementary schools in the Côte-des-Neiges district in Montreal. These four future nurses achieved a huge success when they brought together different actors from the health and education fields and responded to the concerns of parents whose children attend school. After surveying over 400 parents, the following themes were dealt with in The Health Link: nutrition, discipline, sleep and stress. The project, and the professionalism with which it was carried out, have stimulated a keen interest and The Health Link will not only be published again next year, it may also be put to the test at several additional schools.
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