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November 2007-March 2008
	Student Spotlight Global Health & Cancer—Einstein fourth-year students Eleanor Chung and Chava Kahn recently returned to Uganda, where they will help to combat cervical cancer. The two Einstein students will spend the next two months working with staff from the organization PINCC (Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer) to administer the “see-and-treat” screening program. They also will assist in training local health care workers in the techniques involved in performing such screenings. During an earlier visit to Uganda, Ms. Chung and Ms. Kahn observed that there was no routine screening for cervical cancer, so they established education and screening programs to address this need. They then enlisted PINCC to bring their vital screening program to Uganda, after assisting the organization with their program during a summer 2007 elective in Nicaragua. The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a feature story about fourth-year medical student John Daniel "Dan" Kelly and the medical clinic that he has helped to establish near Sierra Leone’s diamond mines. The story also noted that Mr. Kelly has launched a program for severely malnourished children in the Port Loko District of the African nation, using a grant that he received from the United Nations. (February 11, 2008) On Thursday, March 20, Einstein's 174 fourth-year students learned their post-med school fates at the annual Match Day, held nationwide at all 125 U.S. medical schools. According to Stephen Baum, M.D., senior associate dean for students, the Class of 2008 placed well, with matches at residency programs throughout the country. Of the 149 students that placed with programs in New York, 68 will be residents at Einstein affiliates Montefiore Medical Center, Jacobi Medical Center, Beth Israel, or Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Also on March 20th, a group of Einstein students, led by M.D.-Ph.D. candidate Joy Gibson, staged a performance of The Vagina Monologues in the College of Medicine's Robbins Auditorium. More than 200 members of the Einstein and local community attended the show, which raised more than $2000 for Day-One and V-Day, two charitable organizations that offer supportive programs to help women who are dealing with domestic violence. On Monday, March 24, Einstein's Class of 2011 held a special Cadaver Convocation, to mark the completion of their first-year Anatomy course and to respectfully thank the individuals who gave their bodies to science to serve as anatomy course cadavers. The event included music, poetry, and a candle-lighting ceremony, during which each cadaver was thanked by name. Personal reflections from faculty and students were also a major part of the evening. Einstein students hold this special convocation each year as a way to honor the individuals whose bodies provide precious information to all first-year students. HOME

November 2007-March 2008

Student Spotlight

Global Health & Cancer—Einstein fourth-year students Eleanor Chung and Chava Kahn recently returned to Uganda, where they will help to combat cervical cancer. The two Einstein students will spend the next two months working with staff from the organization PINCC (Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer) to administer the “see-and-treat” screening program. They also will assist in training local health care workers in the techniques involved in performing such screenings. During an earlier visit to Uganda, Ms. Chung and Ms. Kahn observed that there was no routine screening for cervical cancer, so they established education and screening programs to address this need. They then enlisted PINCC to bring their vital screening program to Uganda, after assisting the organization with their program during a summer 2007 elective in Nicaragua.

The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a feature story about fourth-year medical student John Daniel "Dan" Kelly and the medical clinic that he has helped to establish near Sierra Leone’s diamond mines. The story also noted that Mr. Kelly has launched a program for severely malnourished children in the Port Loko District of the African nation, using a grant that he received from the United Nations. (February 11, 2008)

On Thursday, March 20, Einstein's 174 fourth-year students learned their post-med school fates at the annual Match Day, held nationwide at all 125 U.S. medical schools. According to Stephen Baum, M.D., senior associate dean for students, the Class of 2008 placed well, with matches at residency programs throughout the country. Of the 149 students that placed with programs in New York, 68 will be residents at Einstein affiliates Montefiore Medical Center, Jacobi Medical Center, Beth Israel, or Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Also on March 20th, a group of Einstein students, led by M.D.-Ph.D. candidate Joy Gibson, staged a performance of The Vagina Monologues in the College of Medicine's Robbins Auditorium. More than 200 members of the Einstein and local community attended the show, which raised more than $2000 for Day-One and V-Day, two charitable organizations that offer supportive programs to help women who are dealing with domestic violence.

On Monday, March 24, Einstein's Class of 2011 held a special Cadaver Convocation, to mark the completion of their first-year Anatomy course and to respectfully thank the individuals who gave their bodies to science to serve as anatomy course cadavers. The event included music, poetry, and a candle-lighting ceremony, during which each cadaver was thanked by name. Personal reflections from faculty and students were also a major part of the evening. Einstein students hold this special convocation each year as a way to honor the individuals whose bodies provide precious information to all first-year students.

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