My visit to Landour Community Hospital was my first true “aha” moment here. Perched on a hillside overlooking the town of Mussoorie, the hospital is small. If you placed it next to a facility like UPMC, the difference would be startling, not just in size but how it operates. With only two doctors managing nearly…
Tag: Medicine
Katelyn’s Brackenridge Reflection
It’s been a few eventful months of long days working at the bench, troubleshooting difficulties, and collecting data. I was able to achieve most of what I laid out in my original proposal, but not without setbacks. I originally planned to investigate what the loss of apoC3 does to the intestine in both the whole-mouse…
CURF 1: An Introduction to My Project
Hello! My name is Roman Storozynsky and I am a senior pre-medical student here at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, I am pursuing a BS in Neuroscience with minors in Exercise Science, Chemistry, and a certificate in the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. Here on campus, I am vice president of Be the Match, fundraising…
A Life in Sweden?
Hej alla! I’m writing this just after completing my Swedish Language oral exam presentation, and feeling very successful! So, today I’d like to talk about a topic that I’ve thought about quite a few times – becoming a full-time resident and working in Sweden. I am lucky to have many teachers here in Stockholm who…
A New Stock-Home
Hello! My name is Megan, and I’ll be calling Stockholm, Sweden home in just a couple weeks! I’m from West Chester, Pennsylvania, and I’m a junior at Pitt studying Rehabilitation Science on the pre-PA track with a minor in French and a certificate in Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. My DIS program lines up perfectly with…
My Brackenridge
It’s been an amazing couple weeks being a part of the prestigious and interdisciplinary Brackenridge fellowship. I’ve taken many ideas and realizations from my time meeting weekly during the summer that will help me grow as a student, researcher, and person. I appreciate the work everyone put in during the fellowship and Dr. Say for…
Brackenridge (Click for a cute dog pic)
Intro Hey guys, my name is Jatin. I’m your local dog enthusiast / Pitt rising junior in the Pitt Emergency Medicine Program. I’m originally from Doylestown, PA. This summer, I’m extremely grateful to be pursuing my research goals as a Brackenridge Fellow. I currently work in the Pitt Department of Radiology, Imaging Research lab under…
Seeing Students Grow!
Time flies when you’re teaching Spanish 🙂 At this point, we are now squarely in the controlled chaos that is a college semester. Students are juggling classes, clubs, and in many cases like my own, work. From my perspective, both from the student side and teaching side, Pitt students have done an awesome job with…
Talking to Houseplants
As I began developing my project for the Brackenridge Fellowship and my future Bachelor of Philosophy thesis, it was difficult to feel fully satisfied with the language I used to illustrate its purpose. This is the danger of acting as though research is a solitary process; the right words to describe goals, methodologies, and meanings…
Sarah Hulse: The War Metaphor in Metastatic Breast Cancer
About Me Hi friends! My name is Sarah Hulse, and I’m a rising junior here at the University Honors College. I am a Psychology major with certificates in American Sign Language and the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. In writing this, I probably spent the most time trying to come up with a fun fact worth…