Great Moments in Price Family History: May 2021

Ali Finstad, a great great granddaughter of Joe and Lizzie Price and an MD candidate at the University of Ottawa, was recently part of a team of medical students who “advocated for more skin colour representation in their dermatology studies and created an official new module for the MD curriculum that addresses skin colour diversity in diagnosing and treating dermatoses.”

The new module became available to students in May.

With support from the Faculty of Medicine, uOttawa medical students advocated for more skin colour representation in their dermatology studies and created an official new module for the MD curriculum that addresses skin colour diversity in diagnosing and treating dermatoses.

The fully bilingual self-learning module (SLM) on skin of colour dermatology will coincide with the dermatology unit offered during second-year pre-clerkship and is available to MD students beginning this May.

Article by Chonlu Huang, University of Ottawa Website

The initiative is described in the article cited above, and in another recent article on the website of Canadian Healthcare and Technology magazine:

Adding colour to the study of dermatology

The photo featured at the top of the page is from the University of Ottawa’s website, and shows the six medical students involved in the project (left to right and top to bottom): Alexandra Finstad (MD 2022); Selam Ogbalidet (MD 2022); Mina Boshra (MD 2022); Farhan Mahmood (MD 2023), Victoria Lanoë (MD 2021); and Linda Mardiros (MD 2023). 

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