Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Have you ever been driving through Baltimore and seen a child on a bike pass you by with no helmet? Maybe you wonder why there… Read More »Medical and Educational Perspectives Campaign for Progress
Every medical student undergoes several rites of passage. There’s anatomy dissection during the preclinical years, the first board exam called Step 1, then a dizzying… Read More »Being a Medical Student Subintern in Labor and Delivery
Anyone who has ever watched an episode of CSI or Law & Order can appreciate that estimating the time of death in a murder is… Read More »Zombie Genes: Life after Death
As neuroscience has advanced rapidly, unraveling many mysteries of neural circuits in the brain and spinal cord, the gut's enteric nervous system has remained somewhat… Read More »An Abdominal Window into the Gut’s Nervous System
During the last seven and a half years, President Barack Obama has been a reliable advocate for science and technology. Just recently, the Office of… Read More »Where the Presidential Nominees Stand on Science and Technology
July 1 marked a monumental day for all first-year residents, also known as interns, across the country. All freshly minted medical graduates began the rite… Read More »Tips on Surviving the Intern Blues
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has well-known dual-degree programs, the most famous of which are the M.D./M.P.H and M.D./Ph.D tracks. However, yet another… Read More »Johns Hopkins Offers Training Flexibility Through Its M.D./M.B.A. Program
The Johns Hopkins Hospital can be a labyrinth to anyone unaccustomed to its many hallways, towers and tunnels. To navigate through such a complex space,… Read More »How the Brain Makes Sense with Mental Maps
This past April, you may have noticed a surplus of sparkling lights scattered throughout Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. For those who participated, Light City Baltimore provided… Read More »Baltimore Celebrates with Fun Festivals
The technology behind genome sequencing and the science of genomics has advanced incredibly quickly over the past decade. However, in the process, it has come… Read More »Diving into Epigenetics Aboard NASA’s parabolic arc aircraft