Yale School of Medicine holds a unique place in my mind and heart. Not only does it provide what I need in my medical education to prepare for a dynamic global career, it offers through the Yale System the kind of flexibility that would help me to fashion how to continue my academic journey. I benefit greatly from working at my own pace and building the necessary skills in a collegial environment so as to integrate my interests in the humanities and research into clinical care.
I have gained a diverse understanding of healthcare through different contexts that required communicating with people and gaining a better understanding of what goes on within each individual. I am looking forward to building on the multidisciplinary research with
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I write not only to make sense of the world, but also to make sense of how others interpret what is written within their reality. I shared one of my stories, “From the Battlefield” with the anthology, Making Sense: Beauty, Creativity, and Healing, which was inspired by the colloquium sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. I would be honored to be in an environment so supportive of the powerful connection between the two disciplines and to be in the company of those who are transcending the disciplines into tangible developments in patient care. I plan to use the narrative form to better understand how the physician-patient relationship is cultivated as well as the doctor’s perceptions of himself as a caregiver, of the power of healing, of the humility developed with healing, and how the limits of power are negotiated. Stories, like people, are dynamic entities to interact with, and they play a role in bringing patients and physicians to terms with the realities of the healthcare and its evolving role in