Over lunch a few weeks back I had an interesting conversation with a physician that was discussing how medicine can at times institutionalize the individuals who are participating in it such as medical students, residents, and even physicians. She mentioned that she was reading in a text that if we looked at magnetic resonance images […]
Global Health: Sustainability
Sustainability is a big buzzword in global health, and rightfully so. Global health is all about improving medicine and increasing access to healthcare on a global scale. If we have short-term fixes that aren’t sustainable, we aren’t fulfilling this goal. Beyond that, short-term fixes can actually have really bad long-term consequences. When people think of […]
Meeting of the Medical Students
This past weekend, 30 of my classmates and I traveled to Carmel, California to participate in the Western Student Medical Research Forum. Most of us were able to submit abstracts written during our past summer research projects. The conference registration and hotel fees were completely covered by UCLA because they feel that going to WSMRF […]
