This attitude of caring is also reflected at the school of medicine, where faculty and administrators are concerned about students academic pursuits as well as every other aspect of students lives. Community service Students will find opportunities to serve the community in many ways, from working at a public health clinic to serving dinner at a local homeless shelter to volunteering on an International Service Immersion Trip. Our hope is that students will regard medicine as a higher calling and continue to make a positive, vital impact in society for the rest of their lives. Patient care at Loyola takes place through medical students, not around them or over them. We have an incredibly dedicated core group of faculty that is deeply committed to student education.
Patients come to appreciate students as being integral to the healing process.
Because they spend a lot of time with patients and families, students become very involved in the personal side of medicine. I ve watched students rejoice with families about good outcomes and cry with them about bad ones. I ve seen them stay at a patient s bedside even when it s painful. That tells me Stritch students are in medicine for the right reasons. Robert Lichtenberg, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics who teaches and mentors students during their clinical clerkships.