My decision to apply to medical school was motivated by a broad range of factors stemming from both my academic and extracurricular experiences. My work first as a mentor and later as program coordinator for STRIVE, a program for teens with sickle cell disease (SCD), offered me insight not only into the lived experiences of […]
Paying It Forward: The Value of Mentors
As the first person in my family to attend medical school and pursue medicine, I know that I could not have gotten to where I am now without mentors. Being a first generation college student made it even more arduous because I had to figure out the whole college thing on my own and then […]
Lessons Learned
This past month I’ve been on a teaching rotation called “Learning to Teach: Teaching to Learn” or LTTL for short. This is a mandatory course for all fourth year students at Albany Med and it’s been a valuable experience! We had interesting workshops about how to give feedback and how to have the most useful […]
