Specialty Café

Are you a medical student or resident choosing your path in healthcare? Grab a coffee and settle in… this café is for you! Our hosts (med students & residents) chat with Royal College specialists and residents about their day to day lives, the reasons behind their specialty choices, the joys, the challenges, and more! Although conversations are full of specialty insights, you’ll gain invaluable life advice about being a fulfilled and excellent clinician (and human being).

Feedspot has voted Specialty Café as one of the 10 Best Canadian Medical Podcasts.

The Royal College produces a uniquely French version of this podcast - Café des spécialités: https://cafedesspecialites.libsyn.com/.

Season 7 coming this fall (2024)!

Specialty Café Live: Panel 3 - Psychiatry, General Surgery, Anesthesiology

May 23, 2023

All roads do lead to Rome – apparently! Specialty Café Live, Panel 3, delves into the incredibly unique journeys taken by each of these guests as they became Royal College specialists, and then the paths they took throughout their careers. Rural, remote, urban, and academic practices are addressed in detail.

Specialty Café Live: Panel 2 - Obstetrics & Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine

May 16, 2023

Thanks for tuning into Panel 2 of Specialty Café Live. The theme of this episode is... flexibility! Host Christina Toma delves into the truly rural, community, urban, and academic aspects of:

· Obstetrics & Gynecology with Dr. Renée Soucy, FRCSC

· Internal Medicine with Dr. Umberin Najeeb, FRCPC

Specialty Café Live: Panel 1 - Urology, Pediatrics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

May 9, 2023

Join Christina Toma as she explores the joys and challenges of three very different specialties and three very different specialists too!

Urology, Dr. Mazen Jundi, FRCSC

Pediatrics, Dr. Ryan Giroux, FRCPC

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Dr. Alice Kam, FRCPC

Do you like expensive toys and lasers… and hammering...

Specialty Café Live @ the CFMS SGM, Quebec City (April 2023)

May 2, 2023

Montana Hackett, President of the Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS), gives a glimpse into the upcoming three Specialty Café Live episodes.

The Royal College gathered nine passionate specialists at the CFMS Spring Meeting in Quebec City (April 2023) to talk about their specialties: joys, challenges,...