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Clinical year clerkships are the crux of the medical student experience. Scurrying from place to place, adapting to new environments, adjusting roles and personas amid ever-changing team dynamics — these all become part of the daily routine.
Life is all about trying new things. At least that’s what I told myself when a friend invited me on a ski trip several weeks ago. I’d never skied before, and as someone whose routine activity schedule has grown more boring this year, the opportunity for adventure seemed alluring.
There’s something special about seeing places that are usually hustling and bustling completely devoid of energy, the helter-skelter nature of a teeming thoroughfare transformed into silence and quiet. My experience working nights at Duke Hospital was no different.
In the period of a week, two of Duke’s most influential administrators announced their departures. Provost Sally Kornbluth will leave her role to take the reins as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January, and A. Eugene Washington, president and chief executive officer of Duke Health, is stepping down at the end of June.
In life, we’re often faced with the task of keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances, but the potential venues for these meetups are seemingly endless. Should it be a catch-up over food? Beverage? If so, what type? Is asking someone to go on a walk too weird? What about inviting someone to study with you?
To say the second year of medical school is an adjustment from the first is an understatement. From books to wards, from flexible days to regimented routine, the transformation is stark.
In the spirit of QuadEx, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about how the Duke student experience could be improved. Having spent four years as an undergraduate, one gap year hearing undergraduates complain and one year as a medical student, I’ll offer a few suggestions for the administration to consider:
Around a month ago, I met a man from Lubbock, Texas, outside the Cook Out on Hillsborough Road.
Airports hold a special place in my heart—no other setting features life’s rich tapestry laid out in such a chaotic and amusing fashion.
When I lived in Massachusetts last year, I went to the gas station every Sunday morning.
The sixth floor of Duke’s medical school is one of my favorite places to study. It’s an expansive space with a smattering of chairs, tables and even a piano, graced with a high ceiling above and a stunning view of the campus beneath.
When my medical school classmates hear that I went to Duke for undergrad, they assume I know a lot about Durham restaurants. This is a very fair assumption. If I met someone who lived somewhere for four years, I would assume they could at least name a few good restaurants in the area. However, people severely underestimate my ignorance about all things culinary in Durham.
One of the time-honored traditions of being a first-year medical student, aside from saturating social media with far too many white coat ceremony photos, is dissecting cadavers in the anatomy lab.
On the first day of spring break, Duke’s campus was mobbed.
Whenever I’m alone in 301 Flowers, my eyes wander around the office. Nestled between Page Auditorium and the Brodhead Center, the alcove that The Chronicle calls home offers a breathtaking view of the Chapel above and Abele Quad beneath.
In its final meeting of the academic year, the Duke Student Government Senate doled out funding to student groups and swore in new DSG officials.
Update: This story was updated at 10:37 p.m. April 30 with the information that Summer Session II will be online, would have more than 200 courses and would be open to the public.
Even during a pandemic, the show must go on.
Undergraduate students will now have a few more days to decide whether they'd like to be graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory scale or receive a letter grade.
With all the uncertainty surrounding the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, Duke is preparing for all scenarios—even the possibility that students don't return to campus this upcoming fall.