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Skipping the Gym to Walk with a Doc
In a city where gym memberships run as high as $200 a month (with restrictive hours and the long term commitments), two of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s best qualities really come to a fore: Its proximity to 843-acres of green space that makes up...
We Are Not Throwing Away Our Spot
It started with a simple Facebook post in October 2016. Medical schools across the country have a tradition of showing music videos produced by the current first-year class in order to attract students to their schools. During our Revisit Weekend in April, we were...
Crossing Borders to Build Future Physicians
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, left the country with damaging effects, including a fractured health care system. On an annual service trip, volunteers of the ISMMS student organization, Medical Students for Haiti (MS4H), visit Haiti to train their...
Photo Essay: Creating a Dialogue on the Humanity Behind Sex Work
While working with the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), a human rights NGO in Cape Town, South Africa, I collaborated with my fellow ISMMS student, Vivian Nguyen, to create "I Am A Sex Worker." Over the course of 9 weeks, we interviewed and took...
Artistic Expressions: Macho Man, Part 2
Kamini Doobay, Class of 2017, wrote this mix of poetry and prose after joining the treatment team for a 10-year-old boy with cancer. This is the second of a 2-part entry. Read Part 1. In between cycles of chemo, we saw glimpses of our macho man. He circled around the...
Artistic Expressions: Macho Man, Part 1
Kamini Doobay, Class of 2017, wrote this mix of poetry and prose after joining the treatment team for a 10-year-old boy with cancer. His parents called. They called every now and then - to share new stories, to ask about fundraising events they could attend, or simply...
Superwomen in White Coats
On Wednesday, March 1, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) chapter of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) and SinaiArts co-hosted an event called “Superwomen in White Coats: What Does the Coat Mean to You?” Donning a white coat is an...
A Lesson in Human Rights, Asylum, and Medicine
After finishing our Brain and Behavior course, my second-year class launched into our third InFocus week— a time to come together as a class to reflect on an aspect of medicine outside the realm of typical medical education. InFocus 3 is all about human rights: from...
Black Man in a White Coat—My Responsibility
In a way, choosing medicine felt easy. My father is a family physician who exposed me to the field very early. I remember how exciting it was to hear him tell stories about work and explain the strange journals on our kitchen table. His unfailing commitment to his...