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Video - Chinook 2024

September 3, 2024 Emily Ward, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. I created this video as a way of remembering our amazing trip and to give others an inside look into what the Chinook Project is. This video offers a small snapshot of all the things we accomplished in a couple short weeks. https://youtu.be/kJ0YcE6Fb5s Compiling these clips

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Oct 5, 20242 min read

Rainbow – Ajagutak

October 14, 2024 Grace Done, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. This photo was taken June 20th, 2024, at 9:34pm, the night before we left Postville, NL and concluded our 2024 Chinook Project. A photo can hardly capture this moment. This was the most vibrant and monumental double-rainbow I have ever seen. It was paired with an equally vib

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Oct 3, 20242 min read

“Tying” it all together

October 3, 2024 Mackenzie Pope, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. This photo captures me learning from Dr. Heather Gunn McQuillan as she is closing an incision. A photo which encapsulates a full-circle moment for me in many ways. I think back to a time my sixteen-year-old self sat so inspired by Dr. Gunn McQuillan in a vet camp lecture.

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Oct 1, 20242 min read

Joey and Bee, and the sea

September14, 2024 Camryn Seymour, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. On our final day in Nain, the Chinook team had the absolute privilege of being taken on a boat tour before our flight to Postville. This boat tour was led primarily by Joey, a local fishman. This tour included breathtaking views of the northern landscape, a visit to a ne

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Sep 7, 20243 min read

Doing What We Can with What We Have: and sometimes that’s enough

September 8, 2024 Carolanne Martel, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. Carolanne with a patient My time in Labrador has been both a profound and transformative experience in my journey to become a veterinarian. Practicing medicine in such a remote environment has presented me with challenges that have not only tested my clinical skills bu

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Sep 6, 20242 min read

We can do hard things...

September 3, 2024 Emily Ward, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. “We can do hard things” I said to a fellow chinook team member as we prepared to take off on the final leg of our plane trip from Nain to Postville. I was referring to the motion sickness we were both feeling as our tiny plane dipped up and down between the rocky terrain of

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Sep 5, 20243 min read

Clinic in a Box

August 14, 2024 Grace Done, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. How does one prepare to be unprepared? I had completed an anesthesia rotation at AVC before the trip. I had many notes on the importance of pre-surgical total protein and packed cell volume (PCV) on bloodwork, on interpreting electrocardiograms (ECGs), maintaining blood pre

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Sep 3, 20245 min read

Arriving Like Students, Leaving Like Doctors

September 3, 2024 Mackenzie Pope, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. After a long day of travel and unboxing supplies, before shutting out the lights to head back for the night, we paused and looked around at our makeshift clinic. A community hockey rink turned hospital - equipped with medicine appointment rooms, a pharmacy, recovery beds

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Sep 1, 20243 min read

Transparency: As a key to building trust

August 28, 2024 Camryn Seymour, AVC 2025, traveled to Nain and Postville in 2024 as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of reflective writing. I am pictured performing my final canine spay of the Chinook Project in Postville, Labrador. The setup of the Postville clinic, in a local community center, was amenable to an open concept clinic, where community members were able to stay with their pet,

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Aug 24, 20242 min read

The Kindness That Fueled Our Work in Nain and Postville

August 8, 2024 Carolanne Martel, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. Being part of the chinook project in the northern Labrador communities of Nain and Postville was an unforgettable experience. The kindness and support we received from these communities were overwhelming, making our mission to provide veterinary services not just a profes

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Aug 8, 20243 min read

How many boxes does it take to build a veterinary clinic?

August 3, 2024 Emily Ward, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. How many boxes does it take to build a veterinary clinic? Turns out, about 10. It takes about 10, stuffed to the brim, mostly held together by duct tape, action-packer-sized boxes to set up a functional clinic that can perform basic surgeries and treat common medical conditions

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Aug 6, 20243 min read

Marks We Leave Behind

June 28, 2024 Grace Done, AVC 2025, traveled to Nain and Postville in 2024 as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of reflective writing. “What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?” – V. E. Schwab Upon first arrival to the Halifax airport, our little team began to gather and prepare ourselves for a life-changing journey to northern Labrador. We sat with bags packed and ready, and lis

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Aug 2, 20243 min read

Achieving Big Results with Limited Resources

August 3, 2024 Mackenzie Pope, AVC 2025, travelled to Nain and Postville as one of the student participants on the Chinook Project. As part of the experience, the students craft various pieces of writing. The Chinook Project provides free veterinary care to remote communities in Canada’s North without access to veterinary care. Some challenges communities without access to veterinary care face are overpopulation, dog aggression and increased spread of diseases and parasites.

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Aug 1, 20242 min read