Education

Here’s a question for you: What do botany and healthcare have in common? The answer is: Plants. It is unlikely that a medical student today will be taught about William Withering, or foxglove, even though the same student will probably learn that digoxin is a cardiac glycoside medicine for heart failure. Just two hundred years Read more

One day, a visit to your doctor’s office might include not only shots and prescriptions for drugs, but also a pill with a consortium of friendly microbes designed to improve your health. Sound unusual? Well, here’s some background: The numerous microbial communities inhabiting the human body (the microbiota) collectively form complex ecosystems within our bodies—for Read more

Long ago and far away, on my first day of internship in a Boston hospital, I was handed four pagers to wear. Almost as soon as I clipped them to the waist of my scrubs, the leftmost one chirped. According to my senior resident, this meant that the emergency department had a consult for me Read more

Editors’ Note: This summer, six students from Albert Einstein College of Medicine traveled to Soroti, Uganda, as part of Einstein’s Global Diabetes Institute (GDI), to treat diabetes in a part of the world where 693,200 cases of diabetes were reported in 2014. This is the latest in our series of posts detailing the students’ challenges and progress Read more

The transition from college (or from a career, for nontraditional students) to medical school can be intense. It certainly was for me. In the months leading up to orientation, I read dozens of blogs and articles to try to learn what med school life was truly going to be like and to prepare myself for Read more