Education

A few years ago, the Association of American Medical Colleges encouraged medical schools to adopt a holistic approach to admissions, the goal being the acceptance of students who might bring a different kind of intelligence to medicine beyond that which can be measured by the usual metrics of grades and MCAT scores. What is that Read more

What Is a Public Health Doctor? During a recent clinic session, I was reminded of why public health matters to my individual patients. Pregnant and living in a shelter with her children, my patient struggled to make ends meet with a job as a security guard. Her primary school–age daughter was obese and already had Read more

After reading Melvin Joice’s February 2015 post on The Doctor’s Tablet, I have reflected a great deal on my role as a medical educator. Reading his post about how my words in that early lecture in ICM (Introduction to Clinical Medicine) were heard and internalized by this first-year student was a great gift to me Read more

Editors’ Note: This afternoon, May 28, 2015, Albert Einstein College of Medicine will hold its 57th commencement at 3 p.m. at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. This is the second of two posts profiling students who’ve taken unique paths to Einstein and found great opportunity once here. Congrats to all graduates!” Every morning, after I listened Read more

She still calls me, even though it is a long-distance call from Jamaica. She feels much better after a lifetime of unexplained feelings of panic, racing heart and sweating. The former nurse I helped care for at Jacobi on my third-year medicine rotation had finally been diagnosed and treated for a pheochromocytoma (a tumor of Read more