President-Elect Joe Biden has vowed to make schools reopening a priority of his first 100 days. But parents and teachers need to be aware of the impact this last year has had on those kids—and the difference that impact may have on education as a whole…
There should be no grades in medical school. Forty-something percent of applicants get accepted to one or more medical schools. To even apply to medical school, one needs to have not only graduated or be on track to graduate college, but also needs to …
The highly anticipated A Promised Land was the first book I could not wait to crack open over my two-week break for the winter holidays. Former President Barack Obama explains in his introduction that this work is the first of two autobiographical acco…
College campuses are at risk of becoming Covid-19 superspreaders, especially during the first two weeks, according to a new large study.
The EnRICH program will help commercialize healthcare ideas by students and staff at historically Black colleges and universities.
Moving across the country and beginning my medical training during a global pandemic is definitely a non-ideal way to embark on what will be a very long journey. I came to medical school expecting to do all of the activities that first-year students ty…
I go to medical school with a girl who is universally disliked, perhaps more than anyone I’ve met before. It began innocuously enough: She was too active in the group chat, too pushy about ordering class jackets, this and that. In lecture, she barked o…
Multifaceted diversity continues to be a challenge to achieve in medicine, which is concerning given the irreplaceable value that a diverse community of clinicians provides to research, patient care, and medical education. Current initiatives to expand…
It may be on parents to begin lobbying their local governments and politicians for change.
On those brisk walks across the hospital, I briefly look over at the instillations from local artists. Those pieces ignite a chain reaction of creative empathy and even critique from both patient and provider alike. In the briefest moment, we mentally …
