Celebrating 25 Years of Health Care Programs!

This retrospective of VIA’s health care programs was researched, compiled, and written by Assistant Program Director Hinda Majri,…

Do Our Bit Project: VIA Medical Programs Alumni Doing Their Bit to Respond to COVID-19

Program Director Lina Yamashita recently had a chance to chat with four Medical Exchange and Discovery (MED) and…

In Search of Community: A Look Back on My VIA Journey

By Dave Austin, VIA Community Engagement Coordinator As VIA celebrates its 55th Anniversary in 2018, I also celebrate…

Understanding Challenges of the LGBTQ+ Community

We learned clinical English, patient privacy, USMLE, design thinking, and so on. Especially, LGBTQ+ health issues thinking left…

Cross-Cultural Reflections on LGBTQ+ Healthcare

My name is Xinhui Liu from Shanxi Medical University in China. This is the first time for me…

Comprehensive Learning About LGBTQ+ Community

The LGBTQ+ Movement is Not Just About Sexuality Our first week of MED Program at Stanford is over.…

First Impressions of MED, from the Assistant Director

Hello! My name is Tamara Solorzano and I am the Assistant Program Director for the VIA MED program.…

Insights from Week 1 of MED 2017

Hello everyone, my name is Keita Morikawa. I’m a fourth-year medical student from the University of Tokyo. It’s…

MED Reflections in Haiku

Sushi rolls still there Six-hundred dollars on food And Ubers well spent Hello, my name is William Wang,…

Building Cross-Cultural Community Among Future Medical Professionals

Hello there! My name is Allison Nguyen and I am one of the three global health fellows for…