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The IU School of Medicine's training program is among the nation's largest and prepares students to teach others about the body's most intricate details.

WHEN AARON COSTLOW was told that, somewhere in the tree line behind the Evansville Psychiatric Children’s Center, the woods had consumed a walking trail, he thought the facility’s residents were missing out on an essential joy of childhood, and one with healing power. “I loved playing outside as a kid. I loved building forts, messing around creeks,” he said. “Those are things these kids don’t always get to experience.”  Costlow, a third-year student at Indiana University School of Medicine—Evansville, encountered […]

IMAGINE YOU are 16 years old and have just arrived home from school. You step inside your house and hear a low, muffled groan. It’s coming from the basement. After walking over and looking down the stairs, you see your dad, crumpled in a heap. What do you do? Roughly 30 teenagers were confronted with such a scenario this summer in Terre Haute in the controlled confines of Camp MD, a free day camp hosted by Indiana University School of […]

For Rhea Sharma, life began a world away from Indiana—in a refugee camp. Her father was a freedom fighter and human rights activist in Bhutan, a small nation wedged between China and India. And when the country’s government carried out an ethnic cleansing, the family fled to a refugee camp in neighboring Nepal. In 1995, this was where Sharma was born. Today, Sharma is a first-year medical student at Indiana University School of Medicine-Fort Wayne. She is just one member […]

ADAM B. HILL was deep in the woods. Hill, MD, had battled depression since his days as a student at Indiana University School of Medicine, when he was overwhelmed by the course load, the gravity of his chosen profession and the humbling reality that, unlike most of his life, he was no longer the smartest person in the classroom. Still, Hill continued to “grind,” as he describes it. He graduated medical school in 2007, moved on to a residency in […]