The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the educational trajectory of medical students when it first began. While students nationwide were not able to participate in the clinical learning environment due to the unknown disease, two Baylor medical students took the initiative to learn more about the response and what they could do in the ongoing pandemic.
Learn in this Q&A about Abigail Yesso, a student in Baylor’s Genetic Counseling Program, and her involvement in the inaugural Texas Society of Allied Health Professions Student Leadership Development initiative.
Amanda Brown, a student in Baylor’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, was interviewed about what drives her fascination with science, her interest in science communications and her future plans in academia.
Francie Hessel probably never could have predicted that her final months of medical school would be reshaped by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Still, she’s poised to start a psychiatry residency at Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital this summer, after participating in Baylor’s virtual commencement on May 21.
Victoria Tenge, a student in Baylor’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, was a co-author last fall on a paper examining the role of bile acids in norovirus. Learn more about her work in this Q&A.
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