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11.18.05 Campus visitors help students prepare for future studies Campus visits from representatives of the medical community Nov. 16-17 gave a boost to Erskine students moving toward health-related careers. First, three members of the admissions team of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) landed in Greenwood in a small single-engine plane Wednesday evening, and were picked up and driven to the Erskine campus. "As small as we are, they come to us," said Erskine Professor of Biology Dr. Mary Lang Edwards. "They've been impressed with our students." Associate Dean for Student Admissions Dr. Paul Underwood, Director of Admissions Wanda Taylor, and Erskine graduate Jeremy Crisp, now a third-year medical student, spoke with interested students following a dinner in Moffatt Dining Hall. "Their purpose was to meet with Erskine students who may have an interest in becoming physicians," said Edwards. "Mrs. Taylor and Dr. Underwood explained how to prepare for and apply to medical school." Topics covered included the process of taking the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), writing essays, interviewing, and ways in which a student might strengthen his or her record. "Jeremy Crisp described the life of a medical student and what to expect each year of training," Edwards said. "To the delight of students, he described how he took the MCAT while hiking the Appalachian Trail, a tactic that he does not recommend." Edwards said the MUSC representatives stressed the importance of being a whole person, not just a pre-med student or a medical student. "They also spoke highly of the many outstanding Erskine students who have entered medical school and become physicians." Among the outstanding Erskine students who have become physicians is Greenville neurosurgeon Dr. Christie Bankes Mina, whose husband, family practice physician Dr. Al Mina, was a special guest in Edwards' physiology lab Thursday afternoon. Edwards' purpose in inviting Mina to the class was to "bring together the cardio physiology the class had learned and the clinical aspects of medicine," she said. Mina explained how to read electrocardiograms (ECGs) and spoke about how to recognize a variety of heart problems. "Students began to appreciate the complexities of recognizing which peaks were insignificant and which indicated faulty cardiac function," Edwards said. Students took turns being hooked up to the ECG equipment, as each student had an ECG run and Mina interpreted the results for the class. "Fortunately, nothing abnormal was found," Edwards said. Mina also brought to the lab two human hearts from a hospital pathology department. "Although everyone had dissected pig or sheep hearts in lower level labs, not many students had actually held a human heart and examined it inside and out," Edwards said. Mina joined students as they examined the hearts, offering some observations and recalling some of his own medical school experiences.
From left, Brandon Brown and Keisha Bentley |
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