I had a shitty day at Court on Thursday. To put it simply, while no decision has been issued by the Court yet, my money is on me losing. And I was starting to lose hope about being able to go to medical school as a refugee claimant who probably won't get permanent residency any time soon.

But then, I saw the #Barbie and #Oppenheimer movies last night. One after the other. #Barbenheimer. And I think the combination of the two convinced me to continue to fight. Both for my refugee status and to go to medical school. The work I'm planning to do to go to medical school and improve quality of gender affirming care is important and I cannot get discouraged.

It just means that I can't apply to every Canadian school. And I'll probably need to figure out a residency program I can go to in case I can't get PR in time for #TheMatch. #CaRMS

@siege Makes me wonder if I can go #familymedicine once it comes time to apply for residency and be able to help trans people in my community or if I would be more effective doing a #paediatrics residency with an #adolescentmedicine or #paediatricendocrinology subspecialty training afterwards? I mean, I do want to be an expert but on the other hand, #carms is already a pain in the ass when you have to do it once. Twice is horrible.

Another example of a broken system that prevents foreign trained doctors from getting residencies in #Canada

#CARMS #Medicine #cdnpoli #canpoli #saskatchewan

It hurts to say bye to my daughter and fly to the U.S. But I can't find work as a doctor in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-syeda-qasim-doctor-residency-1.6787957

Meet the Canadian-born doctors who can't work in Canada | CBC News https://bit.ly/415X6xC #Doctors #Residencies #Education #DoctorShortage #MedicalSchool #CaRMS #cdnpoli @cdnpoli