What makes the FitzGerald (Fitz) Academy unique? We ask our current students to share their experiences.
Fitz offers the perfect balance of a tight knit community of students, while also being centrally located at St. Michael’s Hospital/Li Ka Shing International Healthcare Education Centre. Our community hospital site at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Centre is also accessible via TTC. Between our two hospitals, students are able to experience so many aspects of medicine, such as transplant, trauma, community care--the list goes on!
Fitz is such an amazing and supportive community to be a part of! It’s so great to be able to see a smaller subset of our classmates on a regular basis and to form close friendships with them. Since most of our CBL and other small group sessions take place at Li Ka Shing, we are able to walk to nearby coffee shops to study with friends or try new restaurants between classes. There are some amazing extra-curricular aspects of being a Fitzie, such as our annual Christmas Party and talent show! Through our “Fitz Fam” mentorship program, a small group of first year Fitz students are matched to a pair of second year Fitzies, which provides an opportunity to learn from our more senior colleagues and to develop friendships with them. Our leadership staff is extremely welcoming and approachable, and their friendly faces are seen on a daily basis at Li Ka Shing. The friends we made in Fitz will be our confidants and support systems through clerkship and beyond. We are grateful for the lifelong friends we met in this academy who have made medical school an amazing experience!
- Kathleen O and Roslyn M, 2T2