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Although medical students usually stick to the human species, Harvard med students have been signing up for rotations at the zoo during their final months of training. The clinical elective, offered for the last three years, is also intended to reinforce the idea that animals and people share the same environment. Several students who completed the rotation said they were surprised by how much they learned during a month at the zoo. Gilad Evrony, MD, PhD, a pediatrics resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was the first Harvard medical student to do a rotation. He wrote about his zoo experience in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "I would never have predicted that I would spend my final month of medical school performing fetal ultrasounds on a pregnant gorilla, phlebotomizing a 500-pound tapir with hemochromatosis, caring for a meerkat in heart failure, and investigating medical mysteries across the animal kingdom,” he wrote in the article.
- Gilad Evrony, MD, PhD, Resident, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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