Paul Dhillon
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Paul Dhillon
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Global citizen Paul Dhillon speaks four languages and already has travelled to more than 90 countries. His career goals are to practise rural and remote medicine in Canada and conflict, disaster and humanitarian medicine outside of Canada. A political science graduate of the University of British Columbia, he studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and graduated in 2009. In 2011 he received a Certificate in surgical science by the University of Edinburgh, and in 2012 he was awarded a European Masters degree in disaster medicine by the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novarra, Italy, and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. This year he completed the Diploma in Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He completed his family medicine residency at the University of Saskatchewan in June 2013. During his residency he became involved with the Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Saskatchewan. He served as President in 2012–13 and has represented the association on the Canadian Association of Internes and Residents. In 2013 he was awarded the Canadian Medical Association Resident Leadership Award and in the same year also received the Murray Stalker award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. A Paul Harris Fellow, he has been a Rotarian for over a decade and currently practices rural medicine in Saskatchewan and is a member of the Rotary Club of Regina Oskaya. |