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Best of the Storytelling Contest

First patient

Shelter clinic opens every Thursday at six, First time seeing a “real” patient, I’m waiting at the door.
March 21, 2023
Shyam Patel
School of Medicine
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Behind Their Wheels

November 14, 2022
Michelle Bui
Fall 2021 “How do you know that a man loves you?” *** Emmanuel had a firm build and rigid posture...
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Hey, First Years, What Do You Want To Know?

November 8, 2022
Julianne Riggs
Being a first-year graduate student can be hard. Like, really hard. As a first year, you may feel like a...
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Sri Lankan Student Helps Home Country in Crisis

October 24, 2022
Kevin Long
When Biomedical Sciences PhD student Yash Abeykoon, a Sri Lankan citizen, traveled back to her home country in June, she...
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This Date in UCSF History: Don’t Forget to Vote

October 24, 2022
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[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...
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The Philippines' bronze medal winning team at the 1954 World Championships.

A Balikbayan Box for My Ballers

October 16, 2022
Gabby Rabadam
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...
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From Patient to Student at UCSF

September 26, 2022
Sonam Kumari
In the summer of 2012, I was a healthy 16-year-old cloaked with naïve invincibility. So, when I was waking up...
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Phd F****ery

September 26, 2022
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
The Phd program sucks the life out of me, It’s like jumping on a treadmill and not being able to...
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Letters of Gratitude

September 17, 2022
Chloe Sales
Anna Park

How can we thank those who've donated their bodies to our medical education?

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Farewell Til Fall

May 29, 2022
Victoria Turner
As we end the 66th year of Synapse’s publication, I encourage you to stop whatever you are doing and just...
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