What’s It Like in Medical School?
There are many talented writers among our students and alumni, including some who have shared their perspectives on current events or experiences in medical school or residency in online publications, like Jason Faber, M.D. (’08), Jacqueline Collins, M.D. (’11), Avash Kalra, M.D. (’12) and John Corker (’14), whose columns are linked below. Recently, members of the Classes of 2015 and 2016 volunteered to share their perspectives in blogs that will be published here, including Jeffrey Zabinski and Topaz Sampson from the Class of 2015, and Kevin Bree, Clare Dolan, Bijan Salari and Lauren Welch from the Class of 2016. If you want to contact one of our bloggers with a question or comment, e-mail the web team and we'll pass your message on.
Columns from Health Care Today
Jason Faber, M.D., who practices internal medicine as part of the Kettering Physician Network, wrote an online column for Health Care Today, a Cox newspapers publication, while he was a medical student and resident. He graduated from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in 2008 and completed his residency in internal medicine at Kettering Medical Center.
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Columns from Health Care Today
Jacqueline Collins, M.D., is a resident in obstetrics and gynecology in Chicago. During her second and third year as a student at Boonshoft School of Medicine, she wrote the “Notes from a Medical Student” columns for Health Care Today. Before medical school, she studied Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Chicago, where she earned a B.A. with honors in 2005.
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Columns from Health Care Today
Avash Kalra, M.D., is an internal medicine resident physician at the University of Colorado in Denver. A 2012 graduate of Boonshoft School of Medicine, he earned his B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University, where he served as a columnist for the Cornell Daily Sun. He was a founder and co-host of Radio Rounds, a weekly medical talk show produced by students at Boonshoft School of Medicine.
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Columns from NextGen Journal
John began studying health policy in 2005 as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame. In 2011, he was awarded the Betty Ford Foundation fellowship to study addiction medicine in California. Now a Government Relations Advocacy Fellow with the American Medical Association and a third-year medical student at Boonshoft School of Medicine, he also is the health care correspondent for Next GenJournal, a national online publication, and a host of Radio Rounds, a weekly medical talk show created and produced by students at Boonshoft School of Medicine. Read more about John in the medical school’s online newsroom.
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Name:
Topaz Sampson
Year: MS2
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
B.S., Environmental Science, Spelman College
Hobbies:
Cheering for my favorite team the Brooklyn Nets, traveling, dancing, reading novels by Octavia E. Butler, playing sports, and watching the movie Bridesmaids
Interesting Fact:
I was born in Guyana, the only English-speaking country on the continent of South America.
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Name:
Jeffrey Zabinski
Year: MS2
Hometown: Fairborn/Yellow Springs, Ohio
Degrees:
B.S., Biomedical Engineering; M.S.S.A, Social Work; M.A., Bioethics; from Case Western Reserve University
Hobbies and interests:
Medical ethics, traveling, photography, polymer engineering, research, writing
Interesting Facts:
I have kept a journal since I was seven, and I’ve been diving in the Red Sea and off the coasts of Zanzibar and Costa Rica.
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Name:
Kevin Bree
Year: MS1
Hometown:
Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Undergraduate degree:
Biology, Spanish and Chemistry minor
Hobbies:
Sleeping and watching TV. But mostly sleep.
Interesting fact:
I once curled 600 pounds at the gym..........a 15 pound weight 20 times..........per arm!
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My name is Claire Dolan, and I am currently an MS1. I’m from Loveland, Ohio, which is a suburb of Cincinnati. I completed my undergraduate degree at The Ohio State University, where I majored in biomedical science, minored in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and graduated in 2012 with a B.S. In my spare time (or during time I spend procrastinating), I like to dance, read, explore ethnic food restaurants and watch movies. As an interesting fact, I have been known to talk in my sleep and one time woke up shouting the diatomic elements. I wish I could also say that is my nerdiest moment, but I can’t.
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Name:
Bijan W. Salari
Year: MS1
Hometown:
Toledo, Ohio
Undergraduate degree:
B.S., Columbia University
Hobbies:
Running, Sports, Exploring, Art
Interesting fact:
I have an older brother and sister and a younger brother and sister. I’m the odd one in the middle.
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Name:
Lauren Welch
Year: MS1
Hometown: Dennison, Ohio
Undergraduate degree:
B.A., English Literature
Hobbies:
Running, traveling, thrifting, classic literature and collecting old maps
Interesting fact:
I ran my first marathon last May!!
