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Celebration Of A Milestone, Komal M. Patel

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A first-year osteopathic medical student, Harsh Patel, has dreamed of starting medical school for as long as he can remember. This is a photo of him at his White Coat ceremony at NSU.

End Of Life Virtual Reality Training: Medical Student Increased Empathic Ability, Daniel Minukhin

Osteopathic Medicine Student Projects

Presentation regarding the following research: To determine if self-assessed empathy can be increased through an end of life virtual reality (VR) experience, second year UNE COM medical students (N=174) completed the Clay Lab VR experience during January 2020. Student embodied Clay, 66 year old male veteran with incurable lung cancer. Experiences included a difficult end-of-life conversation; transition to home hospice care; and eventually death. Students were asked to complete a pre-test and post-test survey. The pre/post test surveys included eight Likert scale questions and two open-ended questions. The data was collected via the RedCap program. Pre and post-test data was …

Watching And Talking About Aids: Analog Tapes, Digital Cultures And Strategies For Connection, Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr

Publications and Research

This paper is a conversation between activist videomaker Alexandra Juhasz and writer and organizer Theodore (ted) Kerr that explores the contemporary role of AIDS activist videos from the past.. Key to the text are ideas around history, technology, time, and community. Together they discuss and enact intergenerational dialogue, what to do with the imperfection of archives, and strategies for shared looking at the history of HIV through epochs. Their conversation is focused on a community created tape from, Bebashi — Transition to Hope, a Philadelphia non-profit.

Volume 4, Nova Southeastern University

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From Dean Elaine Wallace, Elaine M. Wallace

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Dr. Janet Lynn Roseman Halsband, Editor, Janet L. Roseman

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On Top Of The World, Elias Makhoul

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Elias Makhoul felt like he was on top of the world at his medical school’s white coat ceremony, where he was dressed in his white coat for the first time. His fellow classmates and he officially became recognized for becoming student physicians. More than that, it was also a call for celebration, as each of them has endured hardships and overcame numerous obstacles to be there that day. He took the MCAT three times, applied in two application cycles, and was rejected by over 60 schools. Now, he is studying in his second year at NSU-KPCOM. His white coat ceremony …

Girl On Piano Keys, Bhargavi Madhu

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Celebration is the loudest and greatest form of expressing honor and appreciation. The best way to show love and appreciation for life is through celebration! Girl on the Piano Keys was a painting I gifted to a friend on her birthday. She spent that day at a hospital recovering from an episode of sickle cell anemia. Despite the suffering she was undergoing due to the disease, she would always treat everyday like it was her birthday.

A Celebration Of Progress, Reena Patel

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Finding Will In Despair, Dhruti Hirani

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This essay is about the author's emotional journey as she discovered what celebration means to her.

Medicine In Spirituality, Ashesh Soni, Krunal Patel

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Modern day medicine places a major emphasis on appreciating spirituality. A patient’s cultural and religious beliefs are integral when practicing medicine in order to provide the most humanistic care possible to patients. This photograph comes to show the exact opposite, medicine in spirituality. Medicine is an integral part of a medical professional's life and it serves as a major defining characteristic of an individual. Though viewed as objective and subjective, medicine and spirituality are all one.

Every Day Is Worth Celebrating, Sundeep Gidugu

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Sundeep Gidugu enjoys writing about his life experiences and opinions from the mindset of a medical and public health student.

Hope For The Future, Suzanne Riskin

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This was the first Physical Diagnosis I group for the first semester at a new medical school in Clearwater, Florida. The students far exceeded my expectations and my thoughts when they wanted me to pose as their patient was how much better each community will be when they graduate and join the ranks of community healers. They worked hard and always wanted to do it better each day.

-Dr. Riskin

Loss, Suzanne Riskin

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Thank You, Krunal Patel

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The mission of medicine is to promote health and save lives. Unfortunately, one’s actions in the medical field may sometimes never be enough to revitalize a patient. From my experience, the magnitude of the loss of a patient's life will never be fully appreciated until witnessed first-hand. This poem serves to illuminate one of the sad truths about medicine and provides inspiration for medical professionals to continue to promote humanity and appreciate the true value of life.

A Celebration, Angel Mauricio Marquez

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What began as an image became a story. Angel Mauricio Marquez pictured hands raised into the air, basking in the moment and enjoying the little victories. Angel wanted to talk about a celebration yet not portray it as an isolated event. He didn't want to show happiness in a bubble, He wanted the truth behind it. He wanted to talk about the things that we fight the hardest for and the moments we often believed we were inches from quitting but then didn't. For Angel, these are the reasons we celebrate.

Celebration Of Pride, Bryce Sebade

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Saturn V - Kennedy Space Center, Komal M. Patel, Harsh M. Patel

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Saturn V is the rocket that took the first men to the moon.

Future Engineer, Komal M. Patel, Harsh M. Patel

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Komal Patel is a recent mechanical engineer graduate. The photograph is of Juhi Patel at her graduation.

Strawberry Festival - Plant City, 2019, Komal M. Patel, Harsh M. Patel

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Strawberry Festival