Schulich student boosts Indigenous representation and cultural safety in medicine – Western U

September 30, 2024

Taylore Dupuis Shalovsky recalls the experience that helped determine her future.

Sitting in an undergraduate classroom at another university, she remembers a professor talk about Indigenous healing as an archaic example compared to how far “modern medicine” had come.

“As an Anishinaabe student, hearing this blatantly false information being taught to my classmates didn’t sit right with me,” said Shalovsky, now a fourth-year medical student at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. “So, I went back to night school to take my high school courses in science and math so I could apply to medical school.”

Now through research, the opportunities to speak at conferences and her work on Schulich Medicine’s Indigenous Admissions Subcommittee, Shalovsky is helping improve the opportunities for Indigenous medical students.

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