by Colin Hodd, Courtesy of Dal U. Medicine
Dr. Robert Johnson. Photo by Bobbi Carpino
When Robert Johnson walked across Dalhousie’s convocation stage in 1998 to receive his medical degree, he was the first Mi’kmaq person to receive this degree from Dal. Johnson was barely 23 at the time, having enrolled in the medical school at the age of 18.
“I was a bit young. I found out I was accepted to medical school the day I graduated from undergrad. I remember the associate dean saying, ‘Would you like to take a year off?’,” recalls Dr. Johnson. “But it never really crossed my mind that maybe I was a bit too young to become a physician. They offered to hold my spot but I knew very well what my path would be.”
That certainty about his path in life had its roots in the Millbrook First Nation, where young Robert took an accelerated course of study. In fifth grade, he was completing a project on the layers and functions of the skin when somethin ...
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