A Solid Foundation
“Our goal is to have medical students gain the skills they need to become good physician scientists and researchers,” says Yasmin Kamal, MD-PhD ’22. Including a need to understand and effectively communicate scholarly literature. Kamal is referring to Geisel School of Medicine’s Science Scholars program, which a few years ago she and fellow student Marek Svoboda, MD-PhD ’24, formalized and restructured—taking it beyond a student interest group to a preclinical elective within the curriculum. Their journey is described in a paper, “Science Scholars Curriculum: Integrating Scienti...
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