Nursing and Health Care Management School Facts
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- UBC was the first university in Canada -- in fact, in the whole British Empire -- to offer a nursing degree.
- McMaster University's Faculty of Health Science is unique as the only Canadian University that combines in one faculty schools of nursing, medicine, rehabilitation sciences, and midwifery.
- Research at the University of Toronto developed the first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant and artificial pancreas.
- Ryerson’s Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing is Canada's first university nursing school actually named for a nurse.
- Hippocrates, the Greek forefather of Western scientific medicine, began a midwifery training program in the 5th century BC. Midwifery training is still given in Canada today.
- I Medici di McGill Orchestra means “Physicians of McGill” and is made up of musically talented staff and students in McGill’s Faculty of Medicine. They perform concerts for the public and the hospitalized, as well as give lecture-concerts on the relationship between music and medicine.
- In 1900, the University of Manitoba’s first female graduate in Pharmacy received her degree.
- Some say acupuncture has its foundations in the story of a warrior hit by an arrow in his foot only to find his migraine gone.
- University College of the North offers a specifically Aboriginal midwifery program, which includes land–based cultural experience, traditional and contemporary Aboriginal health and healing knowledge.
Norquest College, located in Edmonton, Alberta, has the largest practical nursing and health care aide programs in Canada.
To learn more about specific Nursing and Health Care Management schools, search Campus Starter’s comprehensive database of Canadian Nursing and Health Care Management Schools and Programs.
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