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Student Research Day honors YSM’s MD students for their research and with the creation last year of this unique mentorship prize pays tribute to the faculty
June 01, 2021
Student Research Day
“During your time in medical school, you have learned how to immerse yourselves in a question. You have experienced mentorship and sponsorship, and for many of you your research group or laboratory has become a second home.” The mentorship theme in the remarks of Nancy J. Brown, MD, Jean and David W. Wallace Dean and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine, was echoed throughout Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM) Student Research Day (SRD) on May 18, 2021.
In their welcome remarks, Associate Deans of Student Research Sarwat Chaudhry, MD, and Erica Herzog, MD, PhD, framed SRD as a celebration of the nearly 200-year-old tradition of the school’s MD thesis requirement. Herzog, noting the students’ work runs the translational spectrum from the most basic to the most applied, stated, “today we proudly showcase the breadth of state-of-the art research being led by our students. The creativity and diversity of the students’ research ep