With Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center serving as a shelter for those displaced by Harvey, medical assistance was a top priority. Medical students and trainees where on hand to provide help, with supervision from faculty preceptors, including Dr. Monisha Arya, assistant professor of medicine.
Giving back to the community is an important goal for students in the Baylor Global Health Interest Group. Recently, the group, in collaboration with the Alliance for Multicultural Community Services (AMCS), organized the Refugee Health Fair.
Every year, first-year medical students at Baylor head outside the walls of the College for Community Health Day, where they and other organizations offer much needed services. But it’s also a rich learning experience for students. This year’s Community Health Day was March 25 at Ethel Mosley Young Elementary School near the Sunnyside neighborhood.
Medical students had the opportunity to highlight their research on a breadth of clinical and basic science topics at the 17th annual Henry J.N. Taub and James K. Alexander Medical Student Research Symposium, held March 9.
Daniel Wang was a first-year student and starting to feel the stress of medical school when he signed up as a volunteer photographer at an event benefiting the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a nonprofit that supports cancer research. Ironically, from that desire to get his mind off of school by indulging his photography hobby was born…
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