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 white coat.
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McGovern Medical School at UT Health
Ms. Analisa Narro is a medical student within the class of 2024 at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Houston. Ms. Narro completed a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Ms. Narro enjoys playing basketball and powerlifting in her free time.
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. Specifically, Afua discusses her journey as the token Black girl and how tokenism harms URiM students and the institutions to which they belong.
Fight for Freedom
Having been born and raised in Iran, Negin Khosravi has experienced horrors that are untold. As ongoing protests happen in Iran and as an aspiring physician leader, Negin hopes to shed some light on what is happening and advocate for people. It is time for racism, discrimination and lack of freedom to end.
Beyond the Clinic
Joseph Conti, a medical student, discusses understanding patients and their families and prioritizing what they value during care delivery.
All-American Reject
In a spoken word piece, medical student Hannah Clarke writes about her experiences being a medical student in an unjust healthcare system run by unjust hospital corporations.
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 pandemic and how her experience was profoundly impacted by a vaccination clinic.
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.
The Ward as Medicine
The Ward as Medicine is about how one’s fellow patients on the psychiatry ward can act as mirrors, teachers and inspirations to a patient. Specifically, it is about a mom who, hospitalized for suicidality stemming from her guilt and anger over how she has mothered her children, gets reconnected with the identity of motherhood while interacting with others on the unit.
When a Market Is More Than a Market
MD/MPH student Leonard Wang writes about how one farmers market is driving change in his local community.
Changes
Medical student Saud Rehman has written a collection of poems focusing on the lockdown of March 2020 with artwork to give a visual representation of how he felt. Often times the manifestations of moods unrelated to coursework go overlooked, especially in medicine, and Saud hopes that these provide a representation of the humanity behind students going through difficult times.
First Dissection
Dyese Moody, a medical student, reflects and expresses appreciation for working with a human cadaver for the first time.
On Stages
Resident physician Raihan Noman, reflects on his ERAS residency application process and leaning on his faith.
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Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Hello! I'm a resident physician at Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville, FL. I graduated from the University of Florida in 2018 where I helped manage a spoken word poetry student organization. Thereafter, I graduated from FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in 2022. My passion for the arts and humanities found its home in medicine, through which I have been able to explore both. Outside of medicine, I enjoy playing guitar, dancing, playing sports, reading, and exploring mathematics.
