“Our goal is to have medical students gain the skills they need to become good physician scientists and researchers,” says Yasmin Kamal, MD-PhD ’22. Including a need to understand and effectively communicate scholarly literature.
Kamal is referring to Geisel School of Medicine’s Science Scholars program, which a few years ago she and fellow student Marek Svoboda, MD-PhD ’24, formalized and restructured taking it beyond a student interest group to a preclinical elective within the curriculum.
Their journey is described in a paper, “Science Scholars Curriculum: Integrating Scientific Research into Undergraduate Medical Education through a Comprehensive Student-Led Preclinical Elective,” published today in MedEdPORTAL. Lead authors Kamal and Svoboda, and senior author Roshini Pinto-Powell, MD, professor of medical education, and Science Scholars advisor, layout the benefits of familiarizing future physicians with the scientific method.
Amid pandemic, health care practitioners review, rethink, reimagine
In Resilient Vermont Network talk, health care panel discusses telemedicine and other patient-serving adaptations
The coronavirus pandemic forced health care’s practitioners to be both in and on. “In” as in office for visits, routine and emergency; “on” as in on camera, to connect with far-off patients who are checking in from home.
A panel of experts Norwich Nursing Director Paulette Thabault, Dr. Alissa Thomas, a neurologist and neuro-oncologist and an assistant professor at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Dr. Roshini Pinto-Powell, a professor of medicine and medical education and Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine said Monday that the pandemic also had practitioners nationwide rethinking care’s delivery and newly embracing technology.