talented with a knife due to all this practice. Advice to MS-I’s and future medical students: Find a study schedule that works for you and stick with it. This is likely to be very different from how you studied in undergrad. Also, you don’t have to use ANKI to do well in medical school. I really hate flashcards.
MADELINE WALKER (ABOVE)
Hometown: Andover, MN Education: Bachelor of Science in Biology and Biochemistry with a Minor in Psychology, First Year, UW-Madison, then transferred to University of Northern Iowa, Hobbies: Hiking, traveling, going to coffee shops, listening to podcasts, and watching movies Research project title and role? Anti-tNASP Antibody in the Serum of Patients with Lung Cancer and Thyroid Cancer; student research assistant for Dr. Oleg Alekseev. Why did you choose to participate in Summer Scholars program and what did you learn? I saw this as an opportunity to immerse myself in a field of medicine that I am interested in as well as being able to contribute to a project that may have huge implications for diagnosing patients with cancer. I have learned so much about the research process and the impact we as medical students can have in the medical community. Advice for MS-Is and future medical students: Take the advice you receive about studying with a grain of salt because everyone is MEDICINE.C AMPBELL.EDU
In addition to serving as a Summer Scholars mentor, Dr. Bonnie Brenseke (illustration above) is a PI for the Collaborative Anatomy-Pathology (CAP) Project with Drs. Foster, Green, Mitchell, Newton, Proia, and Toler. The CAP Project provides medical students a deeper understanding of anatomy, histology, pathology, and medicine via linking disease seen at gross and microscopic levels with clinical implications of the disease. First year medical students document lesions found during gross anatomy dissection. Samples are collected and undergo routine histologic processing. The resulting glass slides are scanned to permit virtual microscopy. After extensive literature review, participating students construct scientific posters, under faculty guidance, for presentation at local symposia. This project started in 2013, was a student initiative, generally involves 20 to 100 students each year, and the students complete the work on the project largely in the summertime between the first and second year of medical school. Currently, she has project proposals submitted for •
Animal Model of Bipolar Disorder with Christopher Breivogel, Tara Adams, and Krisztian Toth; grant submitted to the Milken Institute, Baszucki Brain Research Fund, which would examine the underlying cause bipolar disorder.
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Tracking Chagas disease in NC through a Sentinel Species with Sarah Hamer, Kathryn Purple, Andeliene Croce, and Grace Mathis, Which would create a multi-institutional collaborative to submit and assess samples of sentinel species (e.g., opossums and raccoons) to determine the incidence and prevalence of Chagas disease in North Carolina and surrounding states.
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