The young men sit around the black stage, listening as the speaker presents his life journey. Glued to his words, each student follows along in complete silence, eagerly listening as the speaker offers his own experiences in the medical field. Finally, the boys loudly applaud as the presenter wraps up his talk, giving the students a lot to think about.
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Whether it's cat dissections, clinical rotations, providing medicinal supplies for the needy, or learning about organic chemistry or microbiology, 2017 has been a busy year for the ever-expanding Jesuit Dallas Medical Society. To celebrate the year’s success, the Medical Society gathered to award some of the club’s hardest workers and to honor a major contributor to the Medical Society’s...
Work it! You can do this! Just one! More! Milliliter of Polydimethylsiloxane?
I’ll bet you thought I was gonna say one more rep….
Rising seniors Sean Holden, Kota Ueshima, and Reed Zimmermann got some serious mental workouts in this summer as research interns at UT Southwestern. Â
These three students participated in the highly competitive STARS research program. Upon acceptance, each student was...
Do you know what the term is for having worms in your brain?! If you were in the Jesuit Medical Society you would. (By the way, its called neurocysticercosis)
Jesuit’s Medical Society had its first meeting on Monday, September 24, 2019, and along with this, its Structure Function class also started this month.Â
First Meeting
During its first meeting, Jesuit Medical Society,...
So how did you spend your summer? Inspecting the intestines of fruit flies? Analyzing the effects of vaccines? Digging for a solution to cancer?
Actually, three Jesuit students, Patrick Arraj '14, Trevor Johnson '14, and Mason Amelotte '14, respectively, accomplished just the above. Participants of the STARS program at UT Southwestern, a nationally renowned medical school with multiple nobel laureates,...
Throughout the first semester at Jesuit, the Medical Society has been busy with various activities in the form of their monthly meetings. These meetings have consisted of someone from the medical field explaining what they do and how their process of becoming a doctor has been. So far, the group has had three doctors speak to them, and each...
When one envisions a traditional summer job, activities such as observing genetic mutations in mice, identifying how certain pathogens use virulence effectors to infect eukaryotic cells, and quantifying the functional activation of the dysplastic cortex of the brain don’t often come to mind. But for three Jesuit seniors, Erik Sanchez- Perez, Noah Sherer, and Joe Carver, these activities are...
On April 6, 2020, at 11:15 am, Dr. Lynn Tam released an email to all S.T.A.R.S. applicants informing them that for the first time in the program's history it had been canceled.
The following message was sent to the applicants this morning: "In light of the current fluid COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on research, as well as in an...
