2025

Special Issue: Wishes for medicine
ISSUE 10 PDF
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The Medicalization of Aging: Exploring the Ethics and Impacts of Anti-Aging Interventions
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The Role of Stem Cell Therapy in Treating Type 1 Diabetes and Scientific Advances in Evading an Immune Response
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Current Practices in ED Social Determinants Screening and Care Connection: A Literature Review
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The Expansion of Private Equity into Ophthalmology
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Assessing the Need to Educate Prehospital Providers on the Sex Differences in the Clinical Presentation of Acute MI
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Crystalline Conundrum: Understanding the Absence of Tumorigenesis in the Human Lens
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A Guide to AI Challenges and Barriers
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Forgotten Fragments
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2024

Issue 9 PDF
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Arts
A calligram in ancient Greek of the Hippocratic Oath taking the shape of the Rod of Asclepius, oil on canvas
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Research
Assessing the Oral Health of the Homeless Population in Central Massachusetts
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Research
Teaching Medical Spanish Alongside the Medical History: Evaluation of a Decade-Old Peer-Led Medical Spanish Program
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Review
History, Recent Advances, and Ethical Controversies of Solid Organ Xenotransplantation: Review and Implications for Future Clinical Trials
Review
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Review
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Perspective
Patient Discharge Decision Flowchart: Streamlining Disposition Management after Acute Hospital Stays
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Perspective
Doubly Dangerous: Medical Students’ Observations of Weight Bias in the Clinical Setting
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Doubly Dangerous: Medical Students’ Observations of Weight Bias in the Clinical Setting
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Perspective
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Review
Emerging Relationships of Sarcomeric Mutations and the Cardiomyocyte Transcriptome in the setting of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Review
Neuro-Immune Crosstalk: The Relationship Between Adrenergic Stimulation and Macrophages in Developing Upstream Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
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Review

2023

ISSUE 8 PDF
Featured
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Review
The Role of Estrogen in Ovarian Cancer and the Pathways by Which Estrogen Acts
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Review
Suggestions Implemented During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Improve Medical Student Dermatology Exposure and Education
Review
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Review
Dendritic Cell Vaccines in Ovarian Cancer: Have We Reached Their Potential?
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Review
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Perspective
Beyond Prophylaxis: Could the HPV Vaccine be Repurposed in Skin Cancer Treatment
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Research
Racism in Medicine Conference: A Student-Led Health Professional Event Cultivating Anti-Racism Education through Safe Spaces
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Perspective
How to Define Death: Variation in Donation After Circulatory Death Policies
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Arts
On Dying
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2022

ISSUE 7 PDF
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Primary Care Selection and the Financial Burdens of Medical Education

Christin Spatz, MD , Kara Romanowski, Tanja Adonizio, MD, and Michelle Schmude, EdD

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Integrating a Smoking Cessation Initiative for the Uninsured at a Student-Run Free Clinic

Cynthia Y Tang, BS, Lauren E. Flowers, BS, Emra Bosnjak, BS, Tricia Haynes, MS, Jamie B. Smith, MA, Laura E. Morris, MD, MSPH

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Completing the Results of a Pan-Canadian Survey on the State of Oncology Education in Family Practice Residency Programs: Comparison of One Province to the Rest of Canada

Alanna Janz, Lisa Wang, Svetlana Bortnik, Jaspreet Garcha, Vincent Tam, Steven Yip, and Paris Ann Ingledew

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A Look at South Korean Plastic Surgery

Annie Jin and Ian Whittall

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Vibration-based Microphones as a Solution for Non-invasive Ventilation Related Communication Impairment

James Lee

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About Time: Making Space in the Classroom for Students’ Experiences of Trauma

Christine Xu, David A. Hirsh, MD, Jennifer C. Kesselheim, MD

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Medical Student Perspective on Resident Maternity Leave Policy

May M. Kyaw, Angela Pham, Gaia Linfield, Zoe Burger, Sara Toulouie, and Olivia Yang

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Colorectal Cancer Screening During COVID-19: FIT testing as the Suggested Solution

Aleeza J. Leder Macek, B.Sc

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How the Texas Heartbeat Bill Will Affect Low-Income Women of Color Across the U.S.: A Commentary
How the Texas Heartbeat Bill Will Affect Low-Income Women of Color Across the U.S.: A Commentary

Natalia Eugene, BS, Anna Kheyfets, BA, and Mackenzie Bennett, BS

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Issue 6 PDF
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Advancing Preclinical Medical Education through High Fidelity Simulation and Standardized Patient Families

Benjamin W. Cooper, Nicholas A. Jaeger, Maureen A. Hirthler, and Cathy J. King

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Too Loose, Too Tight, But Never Just Right: Adhesions, Aspirations, and Atelectasis
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Reducing Childhood Respiratory Infections through Interventions in Indoor Household Air Pollution in Rural Underdeveloped Countries
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The Danger of Genetic Risk Scores for Worsening Race-Based Disparities in Healthcare
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What’s in the Cauldron: Witches, Folk Remedies, and their Contributions to Modern Medicine
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Mental Health Referrals in Physician Aid in Dying Laws
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Race and Medicine: Black People Are Not Born Sick
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Gun Violence is Every Doctors’ Lane: Ways Healthcare Providers Can Protect Public Health
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Addressing Pervasive Homophobia in Medical Education
Addressing Pervasive Homophobia in Medical Education
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2020

Special issue: Covid
ISSUE 5 PDF

2018

Issue 4 PDF
Featured
The Paradox of South Asian Disparities in Medicine
The Paradox of South Asian Disparities in Medicine
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Deportation and Deprivation: How Discriminatory U.S. Immigration Policy Restricts the Right to Healthcare Access for Latinx Citizen-Children
Deportation and Deprivation: How Discriminatory U.S. Immigration Policy Restricts the Right to Healthcare Access for Latinx Citizen-Children
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A Painful Reality: Unequal Access to Opioids in Developing Nations
A Painful Reality: Unequal Access to Opioids in Developing Nations
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From Sepsis to Pepsis
From Sepsis to Pepsis
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Bad Hearts and How Firefighting Will Come Back to Haunt Me
Bad Hearts and How Firefighting Will Come Back to Haunt Me
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Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease
Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease
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Using 2D Gait Motion Analysis to Evaluate the Mercer Universal Prosthetic Device in a Vietnamese Population
Using 2D Gait Motion Analysis to Evaluate the Mercer Universal Prosthetic Device in a Vietnamese Population
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Bridging Academia and Industry in Healthcare: An Interview with Dr. Michael Rosenblatt
Bridging Academia and Industry in Healthcare: An Interview with Dr. Michael Rosenblatt
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2015

Issue 3 PDF
Issue 2 PDF
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Dr. Maiden Name Will See You Now
Dr. Maiden Name Will See You Now
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The Most Common Illness: A Review and Case Study from Harvard Medical School
The Most Common Illness: A Review and Case Study from Harvard Medical School
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The Management of Stasis Dermatitis and Chronic Venous Insufficiency in Patients Refractory to Conservative Therapies
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Preparing a New Generation of Clinicians for the Era of Big Data
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First (Expiration) Dates
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Post-ACA Healthcare Financing Reform: Vermont Leads the Way
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Bridging Access
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Lethal Injection and Medical Ethics: Physicians in the Execution Chamber
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Too Much Sympathy for the Devil
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2014

Issue 1 PDF
Featured
Introducing the Harvard Medical Student Review
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Letter to the Editor: How We Heal
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Weighting
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Opinion: Playing with Fire? Linking Intelligence to Our Genetics
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Biomedical Image Analysis as a Diagnostic Tool in the Clinic
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Three Lessons in Global Health Management
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Redefining Suffering and Illness
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Post-Operative Responsibilities of Charitable Neurosurgery Clinics in Global Settings
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Socioeconomic Status, Stress, and Coronary Artery Disease
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Cash-Only and Concierge-Based Medicine: Roles in the Health Care Payment Landscape
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