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October 29, 2020
Hello Medical Families!
Robust and meaningful work among students, faculty and staff is in full swing at The Warren Alpert Medical School.
Inside Insight
Students provide a peek into what’s happening for each class at the Medical School.
- MD’21: It’s an exciting and anxiety-inducing time for MD'21 as residency program applications were submitted last week. Per AAMC guidelines, students will be interviewed exclusively over Zoom. As they navigate the interviews, students will take low-intensity electives leading up to the ultimately rewarding Match Day on March 19, 2021. To help ease interview anxiety, the Brown Medical Alumni Association hosted a virtual alumni residency panel on October 7, during which alumni shared their recommendations on how to handle the upcoming residency interviews and what program directors are looking for. They also said that interviewers are just as nervous as students interviewing in this format for the first time! A recording of the event was shared with the entire class.
- MD’22: During the last few months, third-years have been holding the hands of expectant parents in the labor and delivery unit, talking through preventative tests with patients at local clinics, and putting a smile on patients’ faces before they go in for surgery. Students come together in small groups once a month to reflect on shared experiences in the clinical world. They also continue to be focused on community – by being plugged in to the national conversation, volunteering for get-out-the-vote efforts and talking to patients about filling out their census, to name a few.
- MD’23: Second-year students have been adapting to the realities of a mixed virtual and in-person curriculum which allows each student to pick the modality that best works for them. Students are learning the clinical skills needed to take care of future patients via the Doctoring course and doing their best to maintain their interests outside of the coursework through interest groups and pre-clinical elective offerings.
- MD’24: First-year students recently completed the infamous Block 3, which includes the biochemistry component, and are now immersed in Block 4, where they are learning about the endocrine system while completing Histology and Anatomy I courses. They began a new course, Pathology, which will run into the second semester. These students also recently completed their first OSCE, a clinical exam which included the medical interview and vital signs. Outside of class, as the transient colors of autumn illuminate New England, the class of MD’24 has adopted a new favorite hobby – leaf peeping!
Help Us Help You
During these uncertain times, we know it is more important than ever to keep our medical families engaged and informed about what’s happening at the Medical School. Our Medical Parents Committee (MPC), is one great way to get involved and stay on top of all the goings-on.
Please take a moment to answer this survey, which will be used as a guide by the MPC for committee development, future planning and assurance that we are offering you interesting and quality programming that is of value to you.
In Case You Missed It
A lot has been happening at The Warren Alpert Medical School this fall. Here are some helpful links in case you haven’t been able to keep up with it all.
- "Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease," a recent webinar with Dr. Stephen Salloway, can be watched here.
- The Twenty-Second Annual Ceremony of Commitment to Medicine took place on September 30, when the MD Class of 2024 received their white coats. Watch the ceremony here.
- The Fall 2020 issue of Medicine@Brown is available online. Be sure to read the Momentum stories on scholarship – one that focuses on paying it forward and another on how parental pride led to giving.
- The most recent issue of the BioMed Campaign Newsletter, Research to Improve Lives, can be found here.
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