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After double-majoring in pharmacology and toxicology as well as biological sciences at the University of Buffalo in New York, Ghassan “Gus” Mohsin began looking for a graduate program that would further prepare him for medical school. Browsing the listings on the Association for American Medical Colleges website, he stumbled across Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s brand-new MA in biomedicine program<\/a> that appealed in several ways.<\/p>\n

Similar costs of living in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Buffalo, New York? Nice. Major big-city-to-small-town change of pace? Good. Two-year program culminating in a master\u2019s degree? Handy to have that extra credential in case med school doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

Mohsin also liked that the university and program advertised their Christian foundations, even though he himself was a Muslim. (Born in Yemen, Mohsin moved with his family to the United States as a young child.) During his two years studying at EMU, he felt encouraged to explore the relationship between his own faith and medicine, and found himself connecting more strongly with his own religious background.<\/p>\n

As one of the first eight to undertake the MA in biomedicine program \u2013 he completed his final course project in early fall 2014 \u2013 Mohsin appreciated the program\u2019s strong focus on treating whole people, not isolated pathologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s broadened my horizons. [Medicine] is not just about drugs and hospitals,\u201d says Mohsin.<\/p>\n

Regular bioethics seminars that examined controversial medical topics such as euthanasia and abortion from different standpoints were another highlight of Mohsin\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n

Mohsin is applying to medical schools in the hope of one day being a pediatric neurologist \u2013 an interest he traces to his love of \u201cthe mystery of the brain\u201d and his younger sister, who suffered from seizures as a child.<\/p>\n

Mohsin hopes to teach at a community college until he is admitted to medical school. He got the chance to practice that skill as a graduate assistant for EMU\u2019s unique anatomy and physiology course, in which students \u2013 even at the undergraduate level \u2013 dissect a human cadaver<\/a>. After taking the course himself, and then helping to teach it twice, Mohsin says he developed a very good grasp of human anatomy that will give him \u201csuch an advantage over so many aspiring medical students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohsin says he feels well prepared to handle the workload and material he\u2019ll encounter in medical school. And in a broader sense, the whole-patient perspective of health emphasized by EMU\u2019s program has equipped him to heal people instead of just treating illness \u2013 something, he says, that our current healthcare system needs plenty more of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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