Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Benjamin Ostrander is a third-year medical student who strives to keep life infinitely interesting through creativity with words, food, music, medicine and more.
In medicine, we would like to believe that treatment decisions are black and white, evidence is clear cut and uncertainty is a bygone impediment, squashed… Read More »New Statin Guidelines Herald a New Era of Preventive Medications
As we approach the final months of 2016, few would dispute that it has been one of the most politically tumultuous years in recent memory,… Read More »The Making of a Terrorist
In medical school, physicians-in-training spend countless hours learning about the human body. First, we are taught to understand the complexities of normal physiology and how… Read More »A Renewed Appreciation for Olympic Athletes
“You can match a blood transfusion to a blood type — that was an important discovery. What if matching a cancer cure to our genetic… Read More »Local and National Precision Medicine Initiatives Aim to Individualize Medical Care
The Johns Hopkins Hospital can be a labyrinth to anyone unaccustomed to its many hallways, towers and tunnels. To navigate through such a complex space,… Read More »How the Brain Makes Sense with Mental Maps
As medical students across America graduated this past May, receiving the prized M.D. they worked so hard to obtain, many have their minds squarely focused… Read More »Colombian Medical Graduates Learn Through Service
Medical knowledge grows like a metastatic cancer, rapidly expanding every day, uninhibited as new literature is published, novel discoveries are made and evidence is refined.… Read More »Novel Study Tools Redefine How We Learn
One in 292.2 million — those were the odds of winning the recent $1.5 billion Powerball, the largest lottery jackpot ever. As it happens, a… Read More »The Life Lottery
Match Day on Social MediaThe buzzing crowd in the Anne and Mike Armstrong Medical Education Building atrium counted down in anxious unison as the seconds… Read More »Destiny in an Envelope: An Inside Look at Match Day at Johns Hopkins