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Stephen Knohl ’93, residency program director and vice chair for education at SUNY Upstate Medical University, tells students that Hamilton will prepare them well for medical school.
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Over winter break, five Hamilton students had the opportunity to shadow doctors at different stages of their three-year residency in St. Elizabeth Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency program in Utica, NY.
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Nothing could have prepared Vince Sorrentino ’20 for what it was like to work in a hospital: grumpy patients, serious wound care, and lots of bodily fluids. It was an up close and personal look at hospital work for a student on the job—one of seven Hamilton students participating in a summer program with SUNY Upstate Medical University.
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Chemical physics major Clare Munroe ’18 has joined a lab at the University of Pennsylvania researching ways of predicting the severity of breast cancer in both animals and humans. Her eventual goal is to become a small animal vet. Here she describes the path she's taking.
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Rather than spend the first week of spring break basking in the sun on a beach, four pre-health Hamilton students elected to shadow family medicine program residents at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Utica, N.Y.
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Kaia Miller ’18, Risper Kirui ’19, Caroline Chivily ’19, Micaela Tobin ’20, and Tatenda Chakoma ’18, had a close-up view of the daily routines of a medical resident.
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Five Hamilton juniors and seniors returned to campus early to participate in the “Week in the Life of a Resident” program from Jan. 9 to 13. St. Elizabeth Medical Center Family Medicine Program residents worked and went about their daily routine as the Hamilton students eagerly watched and learned what it’s like to work in a hospital setting.
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This summer, Kaia Miller ’18 is working in the Silverman lab at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the Division of Infectious Disease, studying the immune responses and pathways in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies). Her internship is supported by the Sandra Solomon Internship Fund, managed by the Career Center.
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Tatenda Chakoma ’18 is exploring a possible future in neuroscience as he interns at UCLA Medical School, Department of Neurology this summer. This internship is a summer program run by Hamilton alumnus Dr. Bruce Dobkin ’69. Each year he selects one Hamilton neuroscience student to do biomedical training and research at UCLA Neurology. Chakoma’s internship is supported by the Sandra Solomon Internship Fund, managed by the Career Center.
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Five Hamilton students shadowed family medicine residents at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica during the week of Jan. 11. Each day that week, Milinda Ajawara ’16, Emily Chan ’16, Macy Lawler ’16, Yingbin Mei ’16 and Tshering Sherpa ’16 followed residents in different departments including cardiology, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, family medicine and internal medicine.
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