Karandeep Singh

After his first visit to the University of Michigan Medical School, Karandeep knew where he would train to become a doctor. He liked the atmosphere, and he was especially drawn by the fact that students help direct the curriculum based on areas in which the current class excels and how they feel they can improve the program.

As a student, he found other benefits: Strong professors, peers who make him strive to be better, a variety of fields from which to choose a specialty, and even the offer of a wake-up call from one of his professors.

A wake-up call?

Indeed, a professor asked if his students wanted a wake-up call to ensure they would arrive on time for one of his famous anatomy review sessions. “One thing that has really impressed me about the Medical School is the dedication of the faculty to the learning process,” says Karandeep, a second-year medical student.

He is exploring his career options, with a current interest in psychiatry and neuropsychology, with an emphasis on the relationship between chronic pain and depression through brain imaging. If this doesn't turn out to be his ultimate direction in life, Karandeep knows the University offers many other paths he could choose.

Karandeep is passionate about the unique qualities that the U-M Medical School offers and the professors who are at the tops of their field. “Dr. Gest especially has promoted an atmosphere of open-source learning, making as many anatomy resources as possible available to us at our fingertips, so that we have no excuse not to excel. It is dedication such as this which makes me proud to attend our medical school.”

Like many students at the U-M Medical School, Karandeep has a very bright future. And where he's going tomorrow has a lot to do with where he is today.