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I'd like to be the kind of doctor who is present
and emotionally available for their patients.
I really hope I'm just somebody
who never loses a sense of that privilege
and who approaches every patient interaction
with a sense of being honored to be to be present.
I feel like I could not have had a better preparation
to be a resident and an eventual physician
because of CCLCM.
I feel ready to take the next step
and just kind of dive in and learn what it's like
to really practice medicine.
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The thing that I appreciate most
about the way the school is designed,
is everything is intentional.
Everything was designed to try to provide you
with the best experience possible.
And having been a student
and now lived that for five years, it's absolutely true.
I wanted to be, first and foremost, a really good clinician
but I also want to be a researcher
and an innovator in the field
and this was a program that was designed
to help get me there.
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Clinicians who are researchers, I think,
are critical thinkers in a way that allows them
to really think about their patients differently.
And I think the critical thinking
allows us to make some diagnoses
that might have been missed elsewhere.
It's a way to try to move the field forward
and to give hope to that patient
and future generations of patients as well.
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Instead of having grades and tests
we get assessed by the portfolio system.
And we get feedback for every every time we do group work,
whenever we're in clinic, work with the preceptor,
any presentation and we compile this feedback
to figure out how we're doing.
You learn very quickly how to listen without being defensive
and at the same time you learn ow to articulate criticism
in a way that is carefully considered.
Getting that feedback
on all different areas of your professional development
has, I think, made me a stronger medical student
and hopefully a stronger physician.
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We are very much a medical school
that lives within the hospital.
And I think we benefit from it immensely.
I think it really does show
what a combination of research, clinical excellence,
academia, and technological advancement can look like.
Getting exposed to that early in training is really valuable.
I'm always surprised at how a lot of the mentors here
are very much willing to spend their time
helping you grow and develop.
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I love the administration here.
They take us in, they mentor us,
and they're really committed
to helping us be the best that we can.
I’ve truly felt cared for
during my entire five years here.
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There's a lot of different opportunities for students
to become involved in the community
outside of the Cleveland Clinic.
Every year we have the Peru Health Outreach Project
where students can travel to Peru for two weeks
and participate in health education projects
at different sites there.
We do things like annual Men's Health Fair,
Women's Health Fair,
there's Salud, which is targeting the Hispanic populations,
just different sort of outreach
to provide basic health screenings
or to answer basic medical questions for people
who otherwise might not have access to a hospital.
There is a lot going on here in Cleveland
and you get to be a community member
as well as a medical student.
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I really love the small sort of class environment here.
I think it lends itself
to being just an amazingly familial community
and I think that's invaluable.
We often celebrate things
that people might celebrate with their families,
but with each other.
Engagements, marriages, birthdays...
We do a lot of things outside the Clinic together
and it's been a really fun family
to kind of explore Cleveland.
...baseball games, concerts, we like to eat.
We've spent a lot of time with each other
and we really are close.
There's just a lot to do here and it's been really fun
to have a class who's up for getting out and exploring.
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Matchday is sort of the culmination
of the residency application process.
It's a day I think students think about
since day one of medical school.
We find out where we'll get to do training
for the next three to seven years
depending on what field we're going into.
So we'll see!
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I feel very grateful to the Lerners
who made our school possible.
I feel very honored that I got to come here
and to have this unique opportunity
I wouldn't have anywhere else.
The teamwork aspects, the interdisciplinary aspects,
the holistic assessment of us as medical students,
really did lead me to be a better future physician.
I've gotten all the clinical knowledge that I need
to prepare me for residency.
I've gotten all the social health care knowledge.
I know how to navigate the hospital system.
The thing about the Cleveland Clinic system,
not just the medical school,
is that you're part of an international health system
and you learn to think big.
Lerner is going to prepare you in ways that you can't predict
and when you get to go out and share that
it's really a tremendous gift.
You learn from people who are the best in the world,
kind of beyond what you could have imagined.
It's a tremendous opportunity as a medical student
to work with these people and learn from them,
and hopefully one day be like them.
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