Western University medical grads celebrate milestone at Indigenous graduation ceremony – Global News

May 8, 2021

A tight-knit group of Schulich Medicine students celebrated their academic achievements at Western University‘s virtual Indigenous Student Graduation Ceremony on Friday.

Four of the those graduating were members of “A Tribe Called Med,” a group of Indigenous students studying medicine at Western.

Recent graduate and member Erik Mandawe says he, the other three members and the rest of the group were a “family.”

“We’re Indigenous people who have jumped through the institutional hoops in order to get where we currently find ourselves,” Mandawe told 980 CFPL.

Read More: https://globalnews.ca/news/7845447/western-university-indigenous-graduation/

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