Nov 10, 2016 | 2020, Through My Eyes
Here at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, InFocus weeks are meant to bring the entire class together for a few days to get exposure to a variety of things depending on where we are in our educational timeline. Our first InFocus experience came after a whirlwind nine weeks of scratching the surface of understanding the human body—otherwise known as “Structures.” We now know all of the bones in the body (triquetrum anyone?), can visually distinguish between an osteocyte and an osteoclast, and can officially say that we know how babies are made. I’ve felt simultaneously challenged, energized, and so grateful to be here.
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Nov 3, 2016 | 2018, Through My Eyes
Every year, students at the Icahn School of Medicine write Op-Ed articles about topics in health care and advocacy to culminate InFocus 4. Olga Salianski’s article, “What to Do with Illegal Immigrants and Are We Scared of the Wrong Monster?” was one of the 10 exemplary articles selected to appear in the 2016 issue of Physicians as Advocates—InFocus 4. We share her story.
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Oct 14, 2016 | 2017, Day in the Life
To culminate InFocus 7, the Department of Medical Education designed the School’s first #MedEdTank, allowing third-year medical students the opportunity to pitch health care process improvements to leaders of the Mount Sinai Health System—in “Shark Tank” fashion.
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Sep 6, 2016 | 2017, Artistic Expressions
Outside the wind tears
still-green leaves from their branches
pulling them up and off
like a corn shucker
ripping husk from kernels.
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Dec 1, 2015 | 2017, Artistic Expressions
In the psychiatric ward
You teach me kanji.
We start with “tree”:
two downward-sloping lines
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Nov 9, 2015 | 2018, Through My Eyes
Caroline Beyer, ISMMS MD Candidate, Class of 2018, discusses the challenges of working on cadavers in Anatomy Lab.
https://youtu.be/zDZvz4l7opk
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