Category Archives: Stritch

Country Roads

Alicia organized a trip to Pendleton County, West Virginia through the Stritch School of Medicine's Global Health Fund program. Seven Stritch students, two nurses, and a doctor went to learn about rural health care and be exposed to a culture very different from ours in Chicago. I tagged along to document the experience. :] The...

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J’s Anatomy

Alicia's PCM (Patient-Centered Medicine) group decided to get their awesome facilitators, Dr. J and Dr. Leischner, a group photo as an end-of-year thank you gift. (In case you couldn't tell, my inspiration was a Grey's Anatomy promo poster.) Enjoy!

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Rebuilding Together

Each year, the Stritch M1s choose a class service project, and this year's cause was Rebuilding Together (similar to Habitat for Humanity). Saturday, April 24 was the organization's National Rebuilding Day, and about forty Stritch students (and some of their loved ones) converged on two houses to undertake various renovation projects. The house to which...

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Stritch M1 vs. M2 Basketball Game

It seems that M1s will jump (pun intended) at any chance to let M2s prove their athletic superiority over them, and this year's annual M1 vs. M2 basketball game was no exception. Actually, two games were played -- first, the "B" team engaged in a lawless, no-holds-barred game of streetball, and then the "A" team...

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Stritch Talent Show

Alicia and I attended a talent show at Stritch on March 19 as the culmination of their HIV/AIDS Awareness Week. In case being in medical school wasn't a feat enough in itself, it turns out many of Alicia's classmates also have some amazing musical talent -- not fair! :P I wish I had some video...

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