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Teressa Myloyde, MD:
"The more I learn, the more ignorance I have."
In 1989, Teressa Myloyde -- then a high school student -- showed up at the Arizona Health Sciences Center for SIMI with a lot of enthusiasm and a love of science and computers. Now a 2001 medical school graduate, she helps mentor other students participating in SIMI.
"We had a wonderful crop of students," says Myloyde, who served as a chaperone to the students living in dormitories during last summer's program. "They asked brilliant questions."
Myloyde is working on the medical ignorance collaboratory, a computer-based project that will help SIMI reach students nationwide. She believes it is important for students to get the most they can out of the program, which she credits with her success.
"It interested me in research, which is a different world than medicine," says Myloyde, who worked in the Lymphology Laboratory at The University of Arizona Department of Surgery in Tucson and is now completing a residency program in internal medicine at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix. "I don't think I would have gone to medical school if I hadn't done the program."
Learning to ask questions was difficult at first, she says. "Before I came to the program, it was like, 'if the teacher said it, it was law,'" she explains. "It's hard to think of questions when you have nothing to ask about."
Now, though, Myloyde has a different outlook. "The more I learn, the more ignorance I have," she says, smiling. "It keeps you going."
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