Dose of Reality
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Read stories written by our own students as they pursue their dreams through Medical School.
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A University of Michigan medical student explore a surgery-related team project that 3D printing.
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University of Michigan Medical School student Claire shares her experience as on a global health rotation in China.
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University of Michigan Medical School student shares information about a student organization she's involved in called Medicine in Motion.
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Seven thousand miles away, I arrived in Samoa, a Pacific Islander Nation with some of the highest rates of chronic disease on our planet. Nearly half of the population in Samoa has diabetes, placing t...
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A couple of weeks before the start of my M1 year at the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS), I remember feeling a huge range of emotions. Of course, I was ecstatic to be coming to such an ama...
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LMSA Midwest Conference
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It took me two hours to find my DC Metro card. I had gone out of my way to get a special edition cherry blossom one during my gap years there, and I definitely still had money on it. I was excited to ...
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The Michigan High School Ethics Bowl is an annually judged tournament that challenges high school students to think and discuss ethical cases. The Bowl, held at Greenhills School in Ann Arbor, is an o...
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Having always dreamt of going to medical school, I long imagined what my first days would look like: meeting my classmates in lecture, exploring the anatomy lab, and receiving my white coat. I never e...
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Before coming to the University of Michigan Medical School, I spent three years building the nonprofit organization, Lunar Doula Collective (LDC). After noting the lack of reproductive grief care at m...
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Our first week of medical school at the University of Michigan this past summer, I sat in South Lecture Hall with 163 of my new classmates listening to incredible physicians share their philosophies o...
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Coming into medical school, we knew we wanted to make an impact in the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) community by following our passion for improving equity, representation and inclusio...
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After attending Second Look at Michigan (SL@M), it was clear that the University of Michigan Medical School was the place for me to pursue my medical education. However, the beginning of my medical sc...
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MedART is a longitudinal art therapy class for medical students at the University of Michigan that creates a space for discussion and creative expression. The program was founded in March 2022 by a gr...
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Wilderness Medicine is easily the most unique rotation I've done in medical school. Run by the Department of Emergency Medicine, Wilderness Medicine teaches students how to provide quality medical car...
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"I will erase my knees, I will eat it [my knees]...so that I will not kneel to an aggression, an army, or an era" - Muhammad Al-Maghout
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Following my first year at the University of Michigan Medical School, I had the absolute privilege of being one of the four Health Equity Interns in the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Un...
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Throughout medical school, we have the privilege of meeting patients with so many different life experiences. The physiology and pharmacology of medical illness is complex, but oftentimes we see that ...