This book chronicles the journey of 4 medical students attending a Caribbean Medical School. Each has a similar story, yet each has travelled a different road.
This book is the creation of four young Canadian doctors who each attended Ross University School of Medicine on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. It was there beneath the scorching sun, near banana plantations and mango groves, under the tropic of cancer, that they toiled away in an attempt to fulfill their dreams of one day becoming physicians. Life was not easy for these four and living
in a third-world country was a challenge in itself, not to speak of their efforts studying medicine. At times, it must have felt as though they were trapped in the tortuous nightmare of Sisyphus. This new and unusual world was certainly not for the faint of heart. These are their stories; each written firsthand. Their journeys are individual and unique, but also connected. While each doctor has taken a different path, they have all ended up in the same place: bonded together in the sisterhood of tropical medicine. They have all moved on to gain prestigious residencies. The telling of these stories was conceived when these four doctors shared their Caribbean experiences in the company of Alexander Keith’s and his many friends. It is this story-sharing that has led to the birth of IN THE JUNGLE OF MEDICINE: journeys through Caribbean medical school. Meet these Doctors of the Caribbean:
Dr. Tiffany Bursey (Dr. T) – McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (Family Medicine)
Dr. Vanessa Doyle (Dr. V) – University of Ottawa (Neurology)
Dr. Hedieh Ghanbari (Dr. H) – University of Toronto (Family Medicine)
Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha (Dr. R) – University of Southern California, (Internal Medicine)
