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Applying for Residency: Interview Season

November 10, 2016

The last time I wrote about applying to residency, fourth-year medical students were just about to hit the submit button on the Electronic Residency Application System. Several long weeks later, the interview season has begun. The irony of the phrase “hurry up and wait” becomes acutely painful for students during the weeks between submitting residency […]

Ruchi Doshi ⋅ A Day in the Life dream school, Interviews, residency, school of medicine ⋅

Summer Teaching Institute Helps Students Prepare for Academia

June 11, 2015

Academia is a popular career choice for Ph.D. students. While our graduate studies at Johns Hopkins will prepare us to tackle the research side of an academic job, the reality is that professors are expected to teach, yet training to become skilled educators is minimal at best. Recently, a shift in that paradigm could be […]

Shannen Cravens ⋅ Events and Happenings Academia, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Challenges, CIRTL, Classroom, Faculty, johns hopkins, Portfolio, Preparing Future Faculty Teaching Academy, Professional development, Professors, school of medicine, STI, Summer Teaching Institute, Teaching, trainee, Training ⋅

Hopkins-Engineered HPV Vaccine Wins Big in Recent Business Competitions

June 8, 2015

This past April, the Johns Hopkins Graduate Consulting Club (JHGCC) held its annual Biotech and Healthcare Case Competition. For the past five years, this event has served as a hands-on experience for students who are interested in pursuing careers outside academic research, including careers in both biotechnology and consulting. This year, 50 teams participated, representing […]

Bree Yanagisawa ⋅ Honor Roll biotechnology, business, competition, consulting, graduate students, johns hopkins, PathoVax, school of medicine ⋅

Hopkins MD/PhD student is a Kut above the rest

March 25, 2015

While most graduate students are worried about their next exam or an upcoming experiment, Carmen Kut, an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is quietly immersed in her latest endeavors to create meaningful medical products for those in need. Since her time as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins […]

Kirstie Keller ⋅ Perspectives in Research Biomedical Engineering, Global Health, school of medicine ⋅

Class of 2015: Four Years a Family

March 18, 2015

An earthquake shook Baltimore our first day of anatomy. Days later, a hurricane moved through. That was our first week of medical school, and Mother Nature welcomed us in perfect allegory. Almost four years later, we’ve arrived at the 2015 Match Day. Friday, more than 26,000 medical students learn where they will be training for the […]

Arielle Medford ⋅ A Day in the Life, Events and Happenings class of 2015, match day, school of medicine ⋅

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