This past month, UAB’s Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology put on their 4th annual Physiology Understanding Week (aka PhUn Week). Led by Dr. Carmel McNicholas-Bevensee, an assistant professor in the department, UAB faculty, postdoc fellows, graduate students, and medical students went to 2 local Birmingham schools, teaching kids K-6 grades about hearts, lungs,… Read More PhUn Week – Bringing Science to Local Schools
Every year, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC – aka the organization you took your MCAT’s through, submitted your AMCAS through, and that you will be submitting your ERAS through, as well as the organization that co-sponsors the LCME accreditation body for US medical schools) hosts a national meeting where faculty, staff, and students… Read More AAMC National Conference 2013
I don’t think that anything can truly prepare someone for what I experienced for the first time during a patient interaction. It was time for another chance to talk with a patient for my ICM class (Introduction to Clinical Medicine). I had already met with two on previous days that had left me feeling wonderful… Read More Medicine and Death from the Perspective a First Year Medical Student
I woke up extra early on Saturday, October 26, 2013 to drive back to Birmingham for the fourth annual Southeast Medical Scientist Symposium. I had been on fall break, and the drive back was a lot harder than it should have been. I got to the Children’s Harbor at UAB just in time for registration… Read More Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium 2013
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