“I was a clinical support volunteer and a medical translator, because most of our patient population at the clinic exclusively spoke Spanish,” she says. “It was such an eye-opening experience for me.”
After taking a gap year following graduation, Jiang is now a first-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where she shares an apartment with fellow Logger Hannah Merrill Woodward ’23. Jiang enjoys the hands-on aspects of her medical training, especially her anatomy course, where she recently spent six weeks dissecting a cadaver, seeing where the organs are situated and how pathologies manifest in the body.
She says she values the integration of research and clinical practice in her studies and has started working on dermatology research projects with the goal of specializing in pediatric dermatology. She’s drawn to dermatology because the skin is the body’s largest organ and because nearly everyone will have a dermatological concern at some point in their life.
She credits her undergraduate experience with preparing her for the rigors of medical school, saying, “I truly don’t think I’d be here without Puget Sound. The small class sizes, my professors, the internship and research opportunities—everything lined up perfectly.”
