Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Nazik Hammad [S3E01]

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Nazik Hammad, MD, FRCPC about her own journey from Sudan to Canada as an International Medical Graduate (IMG) including the joys, barriers and resilience needed when learning and practicing in a new country. Dr. Hammad also speaks of her work in health equity as well as equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging from the point of view of medical education and systems design. Royal College members: you can earn MOC Section 2 - Individual Learning credits for watching this video.  

Dr. Nazik Hammad is a Professor in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at St. Michael's Hospital and is a member of the Division of Medical Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She also serves as co-chair of the Black Physicians Association of Ontario's Network for Advancing Medical Learners (N-ABL). Dr. Hammad has an interest in medical education, in particular health professions education in low and middle-income countries. She is a visiting professor at the University of Nairobi, Kenya and teaches at the Clinical Oncology Training Program in Khartoum, Sudan.