Learning to Study

Oct 21, 2015

Phoebe Prioleau, ISMMS MD/MPH Candidate, Class of 2017, talks about the adjustments she had to make in her study habits when she began medical school.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Phoebe Prioleau is an MD/MPH Candidate, Class of 2017 at the Icahn School of Medicine.

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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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