This month, I became a senior resident in internal medicine. With that title comes the opportunity to help train new interns at our hospital. And when I met the talented group of interns just before their start last month, I couldn’t help but think back to my first day of residency. Two years earlier — […]
A Day in the Life
Carolina Montano: From Political Asylum to Johns Hopkins M.D./Ph.D.
Posted by Alisa Mo | A Day in the LifeI remember the day I first met Carolina Montano, a fellow student in the Johns Hopkins M.D./Ph.D. program. It was toward the beginning of my first year in medical school. We were both at a dinner for M.D./Ph.D. interviewees, and, as with many conversations between medical students, we inevitably began to discuss our classes. Carolina […]
Jun 22, 2015
Neuroscience Graduate Student Driven by How the Brain ‘Sees’
Posted by Kevin Monk | A Day in the LifeTalking with Chanel Matney, a neuroscience graduate student in the Brown Lab, can send your mind racing in many different directions as she discusses her passions and interests and gives sage advice. A native Marylander from a family with diverse career paths ranging from medicine to performance art, Chanel is the sole basic science researcher. […]
Jun 22, 2015
E-Cigarettes’ Liquid Nicotine Poses a Poisoning Risk to Children
Posted by Sylvia Owusu-Ansah | A Day in the LifeI have spent a lot of time as a pediatrician in the emergency department and a brief period of time rotating through the local poison center. While there, I witnessed firsthand the unfortunate perils facing children who accidentally ingest toxins. The biggest takeaway I learned from these experiences is that all too often, these encounters […]
Jun 5, 2015
What I Learned: Thoughts from a Graduating Ph.D. Student
Posted by Alisa Mo | A Day in the Life“Every blossom exhibits an exquisite disorder of ragged petals finer than lace. But one needs a lens to judge of their beauty: it lies hidden from the power of our eyes, and menyanthes must have bloomed and passed a million times before there came any to perceive and salute her loveliness. The universe is full […]
May 21, 2015
Pharmacology Student Initiative: Building a Better Graduate Community
Posted by Shannen Cravens | A Day in the LifeThe academic motto of “publish or perish” can create an isolationist graduate school environment. It can be easy to convince ourselves that our impact is tied solely to our experiments and lose sight of the fact that our time at Johns Hopkins is an opportunity to participate in an intellectual community built by both faculty […]
May 15, 2015
Advocacy Through Occupational Therapy
Posted by Benjamin Oldfield | A Day in the Life“The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor,” said Rudolf Virchow, a German physician-anthropologist, in 1848. It was this framework for public health that motivated me in those early, molecule-based years of medical school. Ultimately, I thought my career would be more about empowerment than medications, with more attention given to social pathologies than […]
May 8, 2015
Locally Combating the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Posted by Sylvia Owusu-Ansah | A Day in the LifeAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents over the last 30 years. In 2012, alone more than one-third of all children and adolescents were considered overweight or obese. As health professionals, we are aware that patterns of daily behavior begin in […]
May 6, 2015
Project Bridge: Simplifying Science for the Community
Posted by Kevin Monk | A Day in the LifeHow many times have you tried to explain your research to a friend, only to get a blank stare back? Such was the case with Daniel Pham, a graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience working in the Meffert lab. Daniel first realized his problem while trying to explain his research to his boyfriend and […]
Apr 27, 2015
The Elephant in the Clinic Room: Health Literacy
Posted by Ryan Lang | A Day in the LifeAs our appointment came to an end, I took a few minutes to give final instructions to my patient. Though she had many medical issues, she had unfortunately been absent from my clinic for almost six months, making this appointment particularly important and valuable. I observed as she leaned in and struggled to understand the […]
Apr 20, 2015