In January, as I prepared to start my traditional “third year” clinical clerkships, I was feeling nervous. In particular, I was feeling nervous about my physical exam skills, which I worried had been underdeveloped as a result of the pandemic.

A new unique timely campus organization is helping students learn and be a part of COVID-19 research and breakthroughs with the new COVID-19 Innovation and Discovery Research Interest Group of UCSF.

As we wrap up the 65th year of Synapse’s publication, I’m reminded that in 2019, we were preoccupied with fake news. We were convinced that bubbles were the problem.

On a sunny weekend in February, my friend met me and opened a backpack to reveal a small measuring device shaped like a c and a slip of paper. This was a California fishing license, and we were about to go foraging.

It’s my first year of grad school. Because of the pandemic, all of our classes have been online, so the first time that I actually met my professors was at an end of quarter breakfast hour put on by a few of my classmates.