Research and Medical School, by blogger of the month Aaron Dobie
Loading cDNA into liquid nitrogen trays for long term storage. A cool and unexpected part of my first year in medical school has been participation in new types of medical research. Since arriving in July I’ve been able to participate in two different research projects – one qualitative and one quantitative. The first was an ethnographic case report on in-home quadriplegic care in the Golan, a region roughly three hours north of Beer Sheva. Early on in the fall semester, Dr. Seema Biswas (referenced in Jonah Kreniske’s 24 September 2013 blog post) arranged for eight students in our first-year class to visit one of her colleagues in a community health clinic in the Golan. The doctor in the Golan had a number of patients whose stories and conditions cast interesting lights on different topics in Global Health. Fellow classmate Baila Litwak and I interviewed a quadriplegic man whose parents quit their jobs six years ago to ...