Friday May 23, 2014 – 11am
Posted May 23, 2014 02:25:08 PM.
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11:00- Barbara Ciochon, Vice-President Communications at the Canadian Intern Association
Preliminary findings from an upcoming study on internships in Canada show that the majority of interns are young women who make less than the provincial minimum wage, if they’re paid at all. The study, to be released soon by 2 researchers at U of Victoria and the Canadian Intern Association, is aimed at determining the scope of unpaid internships in Canada. Saskatchewan and Ontario recently cracked down on unpaid internships, while Alberta is facing calls to do the same.
11:30- Dr. Mark Sklansky, Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, and Professor of Pediatrics within the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Is a handshake as dangerous as SMOKING? Researchers call for doctors to give up shaking patient’s hands and says practice is as harmful as smoking in public. A controversial report has called for doctors to stop shaking patient’s hands – and says the practice is as dangerous as smoking in public. The team claims that even though the handshake is a ‘deeply established cultural custom,’ it can spread disease between patients. ‘Some parallels may be drawn between the proposal to remove the handshake from the health care setting and previous efforts to ban smoking from public places,’ the UCLA team claim.
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