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Meet Kerthy

Hi everyone, my name is Kerthy Sugunathevan (@keke2691) and I will be starting my fourth year of medical school at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences @umhs_stkitts. A career in the healthcare field has been a dream of mine and now the closer I get to the finish line the more I tend to reflect on this journey that us medical students go through. The one thing that I constantly come back to is appreciating how grateful I am for my support system, and how much they have helped me stay supported through this journey. I’m currently in the process of beginning my fourth year sub-internships and have keenly noticed the pressure to be on your “A-game.” It’s exhausting. Read More


Meet Bairavi

Bairavi is a trained Carnatic violinist who was born in Toronto and raised in Floral Park, NY from the age of three. She has a passion for teaching and teaches both violin and math at Tamil school. Between teaching and studying she spends her time volunteering with the South Asian Mental Health Initiative & Network (SAMIN). When she is not giving back to her community Bairavi attends the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) in Old Westbury, New York. Not only is she in her first year of osteopathic medicine but she’s also in her second year of a masters in medical and health care simulation. Bairavi is interested in both psychiatry and neurology with a special interest in adolescent and forensic psychiatry. Read More


Meet Tharsan Kanagalingam

I journal every night, I’ve done that since I was like 12 years old, not consistently but it's something that has always helped me. I’ve done it consistently for the past 4 years and honestly there is something really satisfying about reading something you wrote about yourself, your feelings, thoughts from that exact date 2 years ago or even a year ago. It’s like you get to see yourself from a third person’s perspective because you change so much in a year, for better or for worse. One thing I learned reading back on everything I wrote is it's important to think about what failures and successes mean in the grand scheme of things. I’ve quickly realized that all those failures I lost sleep over and all those successes that boosted me up, very rarely mean as much a year later.Read More