Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Fatemeh Shojaeian studied mathematics in high school, and her goal was to be a computer programmer at MIT. However, she ended up studying medicine to be a surgeon-scientist and work on the frontline of the cancer battlefield. Long story short, she enjoys being unpredictable!
Working with biological samples has its ups and downs. Every Ph.D. student, postdoc and scientific researcher working with cells, tissues, animals or other living organisms… Read More »Organoids — frustrating and full of promise
In most countries, including the U.S., people celebrate the start of the new year on Jan. 1, in the middle of the winter. However, there… Read More »Nowruz: Beginning of the Spring, Start of the Year
Women have been practicing medicine since its inception. Metrodora, an ancient Greek physician, wrote one of the oldest medical textbooks, and she pioneered surgical treatments… Read More »Women in Medicine, Then and Now
I was a two-year medical student when our university in Iran decided to teach us how to perform some clinical skills through different stations with… Read More »A Day When a Young Medical Student Tried to Feel Like an Expert Surgeon