Summer at Stanford for Aspiring Doctors and Medical Researchers

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by Hanan R. While at Stanford during summer break, I got the sense that there were more high schoolers than adults roaming around campus. This was a real head-scratcher for me, but the process of assembling research for this article has been illuminating. The suite of summer programs that Stanford offers is huge. Because of the sheer number of opportunities and my own background as a medical trainee, I have

Reflections from Stanford: Choosing the Right Medical School

by Hanan R. I found out that I was accepted to Stanford for medical school while teaching a grammar lesson on colons and semicolons to my high school students. Because I’m a southerner with no contacts in the Bay Area, the 650 area code that appeared on my phone was a near-total giveaway that the dean of admissions was calling to share my acceptance, a tradition upheld at the school.