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First year medical students from Western listen intently as Evan Eckert of Eckerlea Acres
explains the ins and outs of the dairy farm.
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For Khrystyna Ioanidis, the day's visit
may not have been the first time she'd
seen a farm, but it was definitely the
most educational.
"It was great getting to see how a farm
really works," she said, adding the most
important thing she learned was how
important it was to be safe around big
machinery. Though she did pick up a
few other interesting facts along the way.
"I learned a cow can lactate for 305
days," she laughed. "That's ridiculous,
it's so long."
A far cry from her home in North York,
Ioanidis spent most of her Discovery
Week in Stratford, experiencing every-
thing from emergency practices to fam-
ily clinics.
"It's great to see the way doctors inter-
act with their patients," she said. "It's
really great to see."
She also said being able to experience
all sorts of different specialties was a
great way to really see what kind of
options she will have in the future.
"I really like how the doctors that work
in a smaller town gets to do a lot more
things, not just one specialty."
Dr. Heather Percival accompanied the
group out to the farm, a tradition she
hopes will encourage students to take a
look at their options in terms of future
placement and understanding.
"It gives them an opportunity to see
how the other half lives, regardless of
what specialty they choose, they'll
understand where everyone is coming
from in terms of support," she said. "If
you can show them how much fun it is
to be here and how much there is to do
here, they would see rural medicine as a
viable option."
According to Percival, the day's tour
was also important in terms of educat-
ing the students about the dangers of
machinery like ATVs and PTO
mechanisms.
"It's also important to help them real-
ize that farming is a science and how
much goes into it," she said. "Farmers
are much more than people who play in
dirt."
Rochelle Johnstone gets up close and personal with one of the farm's youngest residents.
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