Student Profiles

A good friend once told Detrioit’s Cedric Mutebi that “our bodies see inequities before our minds do.” The words instantly …

Numbers from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) show that just 0.3 percent of enrolling medical students between 2000 and 2020 were aged 40 or older. Montana’s Marie Elwood was a 39-year-old mother of seven when she started. A University of Washington med school grad and new family medicine resident, this is the story of how she made it happen.

Sometimes it is hard to know whether time anchors you to a place, or whether it’s the other way around.  …

Nearly 50 years after NASA sent its first ‘space doctor’ into orbit, Jonny Kim, a decorated former Navy SEAL and Harvard-educated physician, is setting his sights on the Moon. If he makes it, history will follow.

For Chris McNeil, there has always been the sound of a low rumbling on the horizon. Growing up in Lawton, …

A couple of years ago, two med students—and roommates—at the University of California, Irvine starting coming back from classes, and …

Though most students have a general idea of how their medical school journey may unfold, it is virtually impossible to …

Six years ago, Alexandra Kamieniecki’s Olympic dreams were in tatters. A former Polish figure skating national champion, ‘Ola’ had lost …

Like tens of thousands of his fellow Philadelphians, Carl Black took to the streets of his hometown following the violent …