End of summer
Hey everyone! I hope you all had a summer as amazing as mine!
As I have mentioned in my latest post, I have spent the summer at Penn State’s College of Medicine through Schreyer’s MD/PhD Summer Exposure Program, an opportunity for four Schreyer scholars in their first year as well as returning interns to work in a biomedical research lab under the mentorship of a MD/PhD faculty. Throughout the past 10 weeks, I had the opportunity to work with Dr.Connor in the Department of Neurosurgery and work on a new chemotherapy drug for the treatment of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. In addition, my internship gave me the privilege to shadow a MD/PhD physician once a week to have an inside view of the life of a MD/PhD physician. Nonetheless to say that I was quite busy. However, since I believed that I should make the most out of this internship, knowing that living right next to a hospital would not happen anytime soon, I decided to talk to the chief residents of neurosurgery and I managed to shadow the entire team of neurosurgical residents every morning for a duration of three weeks. I witnessed many operations and I even made some friends! I’ve also been introduced to anatomy through cadavers destined to medical students. Finally, I am in the process of writing a paper thanks to Dr.Connor who kindly accepted to help me improve my skills at scientific writing and gave me a subject to work on, I will tell you more about it later.
Overall, I had a great summer and I will hopefully come back next summer to do further work with Dr.Connor!
Here’s me posing write next to my poster presentation on my summer work.
That time my fellow interns in different programs at the College of Medicine and myself went on a dinosaur hunt in Harrisburg, PA
Casually posing (I only picked medicine cause modeling is too mainstream)
The beginning of the summer when we drove an hour to see camel races
Finally, when I wasn’t working in the lab, writing or watching operations, I baked and gave myself food comas on a weekly basis