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A Day in the Life
M2 Marina Cox
Marina Cox has always known she wanted to pursue a career in medicine.
It’s a passion that only grew stronger growing up in Kalamazoo, so when she learned she had been accepted into WMed, she knew, “this is where I’m meant to be.”
Now in her second year at the medical school, a typical day for Marina begins at 6:30 a.m. She wakes up, has some coffee, eats breakfast, packs her lunch and is out the door by 7:30 a.m., embarking on her 20-minute commute to the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus for morning lectures.
Students have the option to watch lectures remotely from home, but Marina prefers to attend in-person, admitting it’s much easier to focus and it’s great to be among friends.
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M4 Carlynn Gasser
What’s life like for a fourth-year medical student (M4) at WMed?
If you had asked M4 Carlynn Gasser that question in early February as she was finishing up her final clerkship for medical school – Advanced Emergency Medicine – she would have told you her day begins right about the time most everyone else might be making dinner or – at the very least – dinner plans.
Around 5 p.m., she rolls out of bed at her Kalamazoo apartment and starts her “morning” with a cup of coffee. She has a little less than six hours before she’s to report for her shift in the emergency room at Bronson Methodist Hospital.
On the menu is breakfast which, given the time of day, might be your normal breakfast fare or sometimes it’s take-out or leftovers from the day before. She takes time to study at home, a task she likes to complete because the clerkship – a four-week rotation for fourth-year students – doesn’t always lend itself to much downtime during the eight-hour shift.
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