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Jan 28, 20241 min read

El Cornejo

Matthew Rios, MS2 Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Dogwood / El Cornejo About the Author: Matthew (Mateo) Rios is a...

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Calloused Hands

Iliana Sanchez-Oberkircher, MS3 Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston Froto mis manos afuera del...

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From the Rubble

Richard Suarez, MS4 FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Broken and scattered These pieces lay, One, on top of another. Monochromatic...

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Sangre Morena

Lorena Miss Ozuna, B.S University of Michigan Ann Arbor I stand coated and educated. But they don’t know; I come from healers. From...

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Abuela’s Healing

Raquel Garcia, MS2 Duke University School of Medicine I remember the days I used to stay at my Abuela’s house, too sick to go to school....

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Mosaic

Richard Suarez, MS4 FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Heads, Tails, Floating in a Never ending dance of Swirls and twirls, And...

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San-Joaquin Valley Education Equity Initiative: A Pipeline Program to Encourage Youth to Pursue Higher Education through Pre-Health Immersion Fairs

Andrew Contreras About the Author: I was raised in the agricultural community of Madera, California. As a first-generation Latino and the...

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Culture-Bound Syndromes of Latinx Culture

Megan Aguilera Link to the podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vdbIoRUcjWsZfWRVJE6tY?si=f9cb96a3bcf84cf7 About the Author:...

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Utilization of Mentorship to Ameliorate Imposter Syndrome in URiM Individuals

Jorge Garavito About the Author: My name is Jorge Andrés Garavito and I am a first-generation Mexican-American from the small town of...

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Spanish & Haitian Creole Medical Terminology: Medical Translation Pocket Booklet

Christelle Azolin, Stephanie Martinez, Veronica Alvarez, and Tristan Vulcain Link: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/hwcom-studentpubs/1/...

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Trpc6 promotes doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy in male mice with pleiotropic differences between males and females. Front Cardiovasc Med. In Press

Jose Malavet Please click here to see the paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.757784/full About the Authors:...

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A Case of Malar Rash, Joint Pain, and Joint Swelling Following Carbamazepine Use in the Dominican Republic

Richard Rivera About the Author: Richard Rivera is a current second-year medical student at the University of South Florida Morsani...

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A Subset of Innumerable Thoughts and Observations, Selected Poems

K. Jesse Lopez Please click on the below links to see the pieces: 1) https://in-training.org/__trashed-6-27064 2 )...

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Raices En Medicina

Guillermo Saldana Here is the link to my piece: https://tourniquet-ojs-uh.tdl.org/tourniquet/article/view/13/Raices About the Author: My...

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HIV/AIDS & Stigma: An evaluation of HIV/AIDS stigma construction and prevalence in San Antonio, Texas and Azerbaijan

Jullian Valadez Please click here to find the piece: https://www.processjmus.org/hiv/aids-stigma Disclaimer: The Works published in this...

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Immunotherapy Treatment Disparities: A Texas Cancer Registry Analysis of Patients with Cutaneous Melanoma

Fabiola Ramirez Please click here to see the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-023-01536-8 About the Author:...

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Multiple peer reviewed manuscripts regarding the leaky pipeline in surgical workforce demographics

Alejandro Chiodo Ortiz Ethnic and Racial Diversity Among Surgeon and Non-Surgeon Deans of Allopathic Medical Schools...

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A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient

Lorena Bonilla Please click here to see the paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620618/ About the Authors: Dr. Lorena...

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Trends and Immediate Outcomes of Syncope During Pregnancy: A Narrative Review

Rafael Cortorreal Javier Please click here to see the paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10725736/ About the Author: My...

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The Art of Listening

Andrea Badillo Pérez, MS3, NYU Grossman School of Medicine It was the last day of her trip to the Dominican Republic to visit her family....

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