Hard Rock Medical

What do medical schools look for in a prospective doctor? You’d think it would be book smarts, high marks, and a basic type-A personality. Then why the crazy interview questions? M...

The first day of anatomy class has everyone’s undivided attention, except for Charlie’s—he has pressing family business to attend to. Gina almost becomes the early first victim o...

The students are introduced to one of their constituencies—a First Nations community—by participating in a moose hunt complete with ritual preparations, the dispatching of the anim...

A clinic is set up in a former construction trailer in a remote community. Melanie oversteps her authority and confronts a miner she believes is abusing his wife. Eva is surprised...

Students have their first encounter with difficult medical conditions— dementia and terminal cancer. While caring for an elderly dementia patient, Gina and Melanie have an argument...

Dr. Helvi’s sister is in prolonged labour, and Gary and Cameron are brought in to assist. Eva and Nancy are on rotation in the maternity ward at the Sudbury hospital, where Eva hel...

The students head 5,000 feet underground to understand what it means to be a miner. Charlie witnesses a death and Melanie comes face to face with the man she falsely accused of spo...

Gina receives a surprise letter from the registrar: her tuition has been paid in full and she has no idea by whom. Charlie’s failure to save a dying miner sends him into a deep dep...

At Thanksgiving, Eva brings Gary to the reserve to meet her family and share some moose meat. Eva gets an unpleasant surprise when she finds her ex high on “bath salts” and her cou...

Healy and his students head into the Northern bush to learn survival skills. Nancy and Healy find some common ground, and Charlie gets an unpleasant surprise when he’s forced at gu...

The students get a firsthand look at their future as they spend a day in a seniors’ home. Gary returns to the place of his birth and is introduced to his Aboriginal family for the...

Prepping for the final anatomy exam is Gina’s worst nightmare—she’ll have to see Juliet’s face and to dissect and extract her brain—and she doesn’t know if she can handle it. Plus...

A memorial for cadavers Romeo and Juliet is set for a cold and snowy spring day. Gina has a plan for her “memory diamonds”—to send them back to the earth at the memorial service. C...