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Psychology, OCD, and COVID-19: Interview with Dr. Eric Storch

August 5, 2020 Coronavirus, COVID-19, Education, Medical Education, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and COVID-19

Dr. Eric Storch reflects on why he became a psychologist and shares advice for maintaining mental health in tough times.

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Pursuing psychiatry and coping: Q&A with Dr. Shelley Fang Rote

July 27, 2020 Coronavirus, COVID-19, Education, Medical Education, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and COVID-19

Dr. Shelley Fang Rote is a first-year psychiatry resident at Baylor College of Medicine. She is committed to equitable treatment of mental health conditions, with

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Geriatric psychiatry and COVID-19: Interview with Dr. Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali

July 21, 2020 Coronavirus, COVID-19, Education, Geriatrics, Medical Education, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and COVID-19

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of Progress Notes posts featuring mental health professionals, their interests, and their thoughts on the COVID-19

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Dimensions of time: Starting medical school in the COVID-19 era

July 15, 2020 Coronavirus, COVID-19, Education, Medical Education

I didn’t learn how to tell time until age nine. I had somehow missed the important lesson on how to read the hands on a

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Virtual mentoring of future medical students during COVID-19

July 7, 2020 Coronavirus, COVID-19, Medical Education

The COVID-19 pandemic has isolated us and has caused incredible grief. With the suspension of clinical rotations this spring, I wanted to give medical students,

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Texas and a career in family planning

June 30, 2020 Education, Medical Education, obstetrics and gynecology, Women's Health

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in the following blog post do not reflect the views of Baylor College of Medicine, Planned Parenthood, the Society of

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Glued feet: The importance of compassion and healing in medicine

June 10, 2020 Education, Medical Education, School of Medicine

Ms. Cooper came to us after a truck ran into her one Saturday evening. She arrived in between the chaos of receiving two code-one gunshot

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Under the masks: Emergency medicine doctors reflect on COVID-19

June 3, 2020 Coronavirus, Emergency Medicine, Medical Education, Mental Health

They are physicians, mentors, partners, mothers, sisters, friends, colleagues – but most evidently now, they are heroes. I (virtually) sat down with five women physicians,

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Finding beauty among the chaos of COVID-19

May 27, 2020 Art, Coronavirus, Education, School of Health Professions

Editor’s note: This blog post is part of an ongoing series of Progress Notes posts featuring students reflecting on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Masks for mobility: Helping others regain physical independence

May 20, 2020 Community, Coronavirus, Education, Orthotics and Prosthetics

Coronavirus has shaken our lives. As a student in the Orthotics and Prosthetics Program at Baylor College of Medicine, I was recently in the midst