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’ experiences Read more
Medical School
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
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
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
