A Pandemic Innovation: Student-Led Model to Increase Accessibility to Educational and Mentorship Opportunities

Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen; Sloane Kowal; Daiana Roxana Pur; Stuti M Tanya; Cody Lo; Michael Thai Binh Nguyen; Radha Kohly; Isabelle Hardy

doi:10.1007/s40670-023-01954-1

A Pandemic Innovation: Student-Led Model to Increase Accessibility to Educational and Mentorship Opportunities

Med Sci Educ. 2023 Dec 8;34(1):21-23. doi: 10.1007/s40670-023-01954-1. eCollection 2024 Feb.

Authors

Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen¹, Sloane Kowal², Daiana Roxana Pur³, Stuti M Tanya⁴, Cody Lo^{5

6}, Michael Thai Binh Nguyen⁷, Radha Kohly⁷, Isabelle Hardy⁸

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada.
² Queen's School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada.
³ Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON Canada.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada.
⁵ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON Canada.
⁶ University of Ottawa Eye Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON Canada.
⁷ Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
⁸ Department of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC Canada.

PMID: 38510382
PMCID: PMC10948654 (available on 2025-02-01)
DOI: 10.1007/s40670-023-01954-1

Abstract

The Canadian Ophthalmology Student Interest Group (COSIG) is the first national medical student-led specialty interest group in Canada. COSIG has run several initiatives aimed at increasing students' opportunities for ophthalmology exposure and learning, including a resident-medical student mentorship program, an annual 6-week introductory course, amongst other events, and webinars.

Keywords: Accessible; Mentorship; Ophthalmology; Teaching; Undergraduate.

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