Resuming Medical Training in the Era of COVID-19: A Medical Student’s Thoughts
A medical student shares her perspectives on returning to the hospital after a four-month COVID-19 hiatus.
Chasing Cancer: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Cancer Outcomes
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee along with former executive vice president of the American Cancer Society and Hopkins oncologist Otis Brawley spoke with the Washington Post about how COVID-19 affects cancer outcomes.
Quarantine Activities: Virtual Escape Rooms
When she’s not busy with her graduate program in human genetics, Stephanie Yang likes to visit escape rooms. During the pandemic, Yang and friends have found a new way to connect online by teaming up to solve virtual escape rooms.
In the News: Johns Hopkins Resident Shares Experience During Pandemic with CNN
Mark Lieber, M.D., is a first-year internal medicine resident physician at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He wrote about his experience starting his medical residency during coronavirus in an article for CNN.
There is More to Medicine: Lenox Hill on Netflix
Diagnosing patients is only one reality of medicine, and it would be foolish to think that the job is done when treatment or surgery is over. The Netflix docuseries Lenox Hill showcases the realities of patients, physicians and hospitals — and teaches viewers there’s more to medicine.
Working from Home: Tips for the Long Haul
With labs opening at limited capacity, some researchers are still mainly working from home. Here are some tips to stay on track.
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Johns Hopkins Physicians Stand With You
For The Johns Hopkins House Staff Diversity Council united the Hopkins community to stand in solidarity with the Black community against systemic inequity and… Read More »Johns Hopkins Physicians Stand With You
Winning the Fulbright During COVID-19
In the middle of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, history of medicine Ph.D. candidate Anna Weerasinghe won a Fulbright award for 2020–21. Her story highlights the privileged yet precarious nature of receiving a grant in a pandemic world.
Psychiatric Perspectives in an Era of COVID-19
In a virtual speaker series, the Hopkins Psychiatry Student Interest Group explores what distinguished psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins have to say about psychiatric care and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.