I used to daydream about my thesis presentation. I would be sitting at someone else’s defense, listening as they dazzled the room with science they understood better than anyone else in the world — science they had discovered themselves. And at the end, they would launch into this involved series of acknowledgments, almost as many […]
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Family-Centered Rounds Encourage Patient Input in Care
Posted by Stephanie Zuo | A Day in the LifeLearning medicine is like studying abroad. As a third-year medical student, you cross the border from lecture hall to hospital ward and are expected to adapt quickly to a new sets of rules, a new language, and different expectations for your behavior and role. Needless to say, it’s overwhelming. The patient experience is similar in […]
May 27, 2016
Novel Study Tools Redefine How We Learn
Posted by Benjamin Ostrander | A Day in the Life, Perspectives in ResearchMedical knowledge grows like a metastatic cancer, rapidly expanding every day, uninhibited as new literature is published, novel discoveries are made and evidence is refined. As this magnificent body of knowledge grows, so too does the magnitude of foundational material that medical students are required to master. Nowhere is this more evident than with First […]
May 19, 2016
Research Transitions: From Wet Lab to Big Data
Posted by ytreesukosol | A Day in the LifePresident Obama announced details about the Precision Medicine Initiative in his State of the Union Address in January 2015. The initiative focuses on individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle as avenues for disease treatments. It provides tools to understand complex mechanisms that underlie conditions and to predict effective treatments. The process requires the gathering […]
May 11, 2016
Baltimore Friendships Through Baltimore Sports
Posted by sarahlaskey | A Day in the LifeIf you listen closely, you’ll hear the buzz begin sometime in August. With your eyes, you’ll start to see the signs in early September. As the week comes to a close, like clockwork, the office environment becomes unmistakably … monochromatic. You may not notice it at first, but once you start to pay attention, it’s […]
May 9, 2016
Social Strategies for Innovations in Radiology Education
Posted by Stephanie Zuo | A Day in the Life, Perspectives in ResearchDuring his time at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Liwei Jiang, a graduating fourth year, found himself interacting with classmates and faculty members who were passionate about teaching. One such professor, Dr. Donna Magid, encouraged him to seek ways to make radiology more engaging and accessible to new medical students. "I didn't expect to […]
May 2, 2016
The Best Bites in Baltimore
Posted by sarahlaskey | A Day in the LifeGuys, it’s finally happening. I am going to graduate with my Ph.D. This is 99 percent excellent news, and I am 99 percent thrilled. But let’s talk about that other 1 percent. It comes from the abrupt realization that in a few short months, I’m going to move away from Baltimore, probably to the other […]
Apr 15, 2016
From Academia to Industry: Lessons from a Johns Hopkins Graduate
Posted by ytreesukosol | A Day in the LifeThe majority of postdoctoral appointments are at educational institutions. This includes my postdoctoral fellow position at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Approximately 75 percent of doctoral scientists and engineers who have postdoctoral appointments are employed at an educational institute, compared to only 14 percent in the business/industrial sector, according to data collected from a […]
Apr 7, 2016
Finding Community in Graduate School
Posted by Seun Ajiboye | A Day in the LifeGraduate school can be a lonely time. As your research becomes increasingly specialized, it is harder to find people who can relate. During your first year, you spend one to two hours every day with your classmates in lecture. This common experience organically creates community. You share notes, study together and prepare for graduate board […]
Apr 4, 2016
How I Want to Die: Teaching Ethics and Death in Medical School
Posted by Marina Horiates | A Day in the LifeIt was a simple assignment. Fill out an advanced directive or Maryland Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) form and the Five Wishes form, and reflect on the experience of confronting death from a medical perspective. Easy. And yet, after four years of writing classes and a degree in English language and literature, this assignment […]
Mar 31, 2016