This July, I had the incredible opportunity to spend part of my summer at Johns Hopkins University for a college level course called the Medical School Intensive. As a high school student dreaming of a future in medicine, being accepted into the program felt surreal, like I was taking my very first steps toward the…

Last week in my Anatomy and Physiology class, we dissected a pig heart. It wasn’t my first time. Over the summer, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in a clinical internship at Stanford, where I also got to work with pig hearts. While the internship gave me a deeper, more technical understanding, this recent…

I had the incredible opportunity to attend Stanford’s Clinical Summer Internship program, where I explored a wide range of topics in the medical field. From learning how to suture to understanding the anatomy of the heart, and even spending a day in the life of an orthopedic surgeon, the experience was both challenging and rewarding.…