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I am Here and Alive

by Ervin Anies, MD

Dr. Ervin Anies explores the struggles and emotional turmoil of medical training, ultimately finding acceptance and self-worth.

May 27, 2023
Arts and Poetry, Categories, Featured, Journeys in Education, Mental Health and Wellness

How Literature Transformed an Engineer into a Doctor

by Bassel Salka

Medical student Bassel Salka finds opportunities to improve health care by reading works of humorists, fiction writers, and philosophers.

May 18, 2023
Arts and Poetry, Categories, Featured, Journeys in Education

Recent Articles

May 27, 2023

I am Here and Alive

Dr. Ervin Anies explores the struggles and emotional turmoil of medical training, ultimately finding acceptance and self-worth.

by Ervin Anies, MD
May 18, 2023

How Literature Transformed an Engineer into a Doctor

Medical student Bassel Salka finds opportunities to improve health care by reading works of humorists, fiction writers, and philosophers.

by Bassel Salka
May 15, 2023

Medicine on Skids

Rural Health is an important but often overlooked sub-specialty in medicine. This piece gives insight to the intricacies of...

by Talia Caridi
March 6, 2023

Orders, Consults, Notes

Intern Ervin Anies assesses the expectation versus the reality of the responsibilities medical students and residents are expected to...

by Ervin Anies, MD
March 4, 2023

Do Not Strike Out: A Patient’s Story About Accessing Mental Health Care

Third-year medical student Thomas Gagliardi reflects on the socioeconomic barriers to accessing health care, cultural competency and mental health.

by Thomas Gagliardi
February 18, 2023

Yearning for Yesterday

Shivani Sundaram, a third-year medical student, explores the need for humanity and patience in the face of algorithms and...

by Shivani Sundaram
February 15, 2023

An Unanticipated Learning Issue

Emma Stenz's first time witnessing a patient's death helped her realize the role of a physician in maintaining emotional...

by Emma Stenz
January 24, 2023

Love Language

Medical student Saud Rehman writes a poem about understanding other people.

by Saud Rehman
December 20, 2022

The Short White Coat: A Doorway into Another’s Vulnerability

Medical student Analisa Narro pounders on the power and responsibility she has to patients when she dons on her...

by Analisa Narro
December 17, 2022

PSA: Tokenism is Not Diversity

In this piece, Afua Ofori-Darko discusses how medical education has focused on tokenism on a way to achieve diversity....

by Afua Ofori-Darko
November 24, 2022

Fight for Freedom

Having been born and raised in Iran, Negin Khosravi has experienced horrors that are untold. As ongoing protests happen...

by Negin Khosravi, MD, MS
November 9, 2022

Beyond the Clinic

Joseph Conti, a medical student, discusses understanding patients and their families and prioritizing what they value during care delivery.

by Joseph Conti
October 26, 2022

All-American Reject

In a spoken word piece, medical student Hannah Clarke writes about her experiences being a medical student in an...

by Hannah Clarke
October 18, 2022

The Medical Student Behind the Mask

Rachel Lawson describes her challenging experiences during her first year of medical school at the beginning of the COVID-19...

by Rachel Lawson
October 14, 2022

One Act Can Impact a Lifetime

Medical student Ta'Nae Harrod reflects on working with a young patient regarding her dietary and mental wellness needs.

by Ta'Nae Harrod
September 22, 2022

The Ward as Medicine

The Ward as Medicine is about how one's fellow patients on the psychiatry ward can act as mirrors, teachers...

by Nicole Wong

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Mosaic in Medicine

Mosaic in Medicine is the online peer-reviewed publication for underrepresented voices in medicine. Mosaic in Medicine serves as a structured space for publication, discussion and dissemination of peer-reviewed material, as well as a virtual domain for sharing the perspectives of underrepresented students throughout the medical education and health care profession pipeline. The aim is to not only discuss the challenges we face, but also to educate ourselves and celebrate our successes.

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Donations are tax-exempt and are collected by Pager Publications, Inc., our parent 501c3 nonprofit corporation.




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