April 26, 2013
Rachel Hammer is a medical student and MFA candidate at the Mayo Clinic, and a guest blogger on the Diversity in Education blog. Medical students are in the process of a professional transformation, and it can be cathartic to express those transformations artistically. One’s conceptions of medicine, self, and one’s professional identity may cycle through […]
April 12, 2013
Accepting our stupidity, and having fun in the process
I have a vivid memory of one day from my anatomy + physiology class in undergrad, which makes that class fairly worthwhile compared to a few others I took. Our professor asked the class of 300+ students if anyone knew what a ketone was and the class fell eerily silent… I knew the answer, but […]