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The Hamilton community is grateful for the 23 members of Hamilton College Emergency Medical Service (HCEMS). These student volunteers are New York State certified EMTs whose work helps keep the College community safe 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week while classes are in session.
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Shaq Levy ’20 likens his new job as a medical scribe at CityMD, an urgent care walk-in center in Manhattan, to speed dating. “Each patient comes in, you build a rapport with them, get their medical history, the reason they are coming in today, and ask more questions about their complaint,” Levy said.
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Lingli Zou ’22 is getting a jump start toward her goal of attending dental school. She’s been selected to participate in the University of Connecticut Health’s remote six-week medical/dental preparatory program on a track specifically designed for pre-dental students.
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“‘They Understand What You’re Going Through’: Experientially Similar Others, Anticipatory Stress, and Depressive Symptoms,” by Assistant Professor of Sociology Matthew Grace, was recently published in the journal Society and Mental Health.
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Getting a week-long, behind-the-scenes look at a medical career, five Hamilton students shadowed doctors in different stages of their three-year residencies at a hospital near campus.
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The phone rings at 1 a.m., and Serena Persaud ’20 is ready for action. She's one of the state-certified student EMTs who keep the College community safe while gaining valuable experience for a future career.
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No one who knew Halle Becker ’15 in kindergarten should be surprised to hear that she’s in veterinary school. From her earliest days as a student she would would tell anyone who asked that she intended to be a vet some day. Now she's at Cornell.
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Eight Hamilton students with career interests in the health professions fields are taking part in a volunteer immersion program for undergraduates through Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y.
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A paper by Matthew Grace was recently published online by Social Science & Medicine. “Parting ways: Sex-based differences in premedical attrition” will appear in the journal’s June print issue.
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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.