LILIANA (LILY) WOLAK
MD Candidate (2024) | University of British Columbia
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Student Feedback
"[Lily's] warm & agreeable disposition allows us to engage & answer questions without any pressure"
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"[Lily is] good at taking very complex matters & breaking them down into a simpler way to understand them"
"[Lily] explains things clearly and tries her best to make sure we all understand the material presented to us"
"[Lily is] able to explain concepts in a very clear manner (sometimes better than professor)"
Education
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious"
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC / Aug. 2020 - Present
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
The University of British Columbia is ranked amongst the worlds top medical schools. The MD program is distributed amongst 4 sites: Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, & Prince George. I am currently enrolled at the Vancouver campus (Vancouver Fraser Medical Program - VFMP)
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The formatting of the UBC MD program involves a "spiral curriculum," meaning weeks are themed and relevant medical concepts are repeated over the course of the pre-clerkship years. The curriculum also involved Case-Based Learning (CBL) session to further reinforce clinically relevant concepts.
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As an introduction to clinical practice, the curriculum also engages students by introducing family practice session with clinicians in the community, as well as relevant clinical skills practiced on standardized patients.
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Clerkship, which takes places in 3rd and 4th year, involves traditional discipline-based rotations that allows for first hand experience as well as exposure to a variety of specialties and subspecialties.
Master's of Clinical Anatomy
University of Western Ontario
London, ON / Sept. 2018 - April 2020
GPA: 3.98
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Relevant Accomplishments:
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CIHR Fredrick Banting & Charles Best Canadian Graduate Award (2019)
Clinical Anatomy is a program that is partially course-based and partially thesis based.
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Course work focused on human anatomy, both gross and microscopic, in addition to personal development as both a professional and an educator.
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My thesis focused on maxillomandibular advancement (MMA) surgery for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Specifically, we are assessing volumetric and tissue-based changes within the pharynx upon an incremental MMA through CT imaging to better understand the mechanism underlying this procedure in the treatment on OSA.
Bachelor of Health Sciences is a program that explores health-related topics through a problem-based learning approach. I predominantly selected courses focused on biological sciences pertaining to the human body, including immunology and pathophysiology.
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My thesis was focused anatomical education in the context of identifying mechanisms & modalities that allow for the most effective teaching and learning within the field. This included the discovery that stereoscopic vision is a key underlying mechanism in anatomical education and the objective assessment of the effectiveness of novel Extended Reality systems
Bachelor of Health Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON / Sept. 2014 - April 2018
GPA:
• Total: 3.81
• Final 2 years: 3.98
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Relevant Accomplishments:
• McMaster Provost Honour Roll Medal (2018)
• McMaster University’s Anatomy Prize (2018)
• McMaster Dean’s Honour List (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• McMaster Honor Award entrance scholarship (2014)