Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Transitioning to my medical school clerkship after my Ph.D. training was stressful. After a five-year absence from the clinic, my medical knowledge and clinical skills were rusty. My practical knowledge — for example, how to find information in medical charts or how to present patients in morning rounds — also needed improvement. But beyond lacking […]
Alisa Mo ⋅ A Day in the Life Bangladesh, MCAT, New York University, Physicians for Human Rights, Sydur Rahman ⋅
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 — […]
Ryan Lang ⋅ A Day in the Life clinical residency, internal medicine, internship, mentorship ⋅
I 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 […]
Alisa Mo ⋅ A Day in the Life Brain, Cells, Colombia, DNA, Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins M.D./Ph.D., Molecular Biology, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Neuronal Epigenetics, Neuroscience, Political Asylum, Schizophrenia ⋅
Talking 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. […]
Kevin Monk ⋅ A Day in the Life Brain, Brown Lab, Cerebral Cortex, Neurons, Neuroscience, Senses, Sensory, Thalamus ⋅
I 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 […]
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah ⋅ A Day in the Life children, e-cigarettes, nicotine, poison ⋅
“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 […]
The 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 […]
Shannen Cravens ⋅ A Day in the Life community, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Pharmacology ⋅
“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 […]
Benjamin Oldfield ⋅ A Day in the Life Johns Hopkins Children's Center, occupational therapy ⋅
According 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 […]
How 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 […]
Kevin Monk ⋅ A Day in the Life health literacy, project bridge, Science Communicator ⋅