Undergraduate medical experience

Junior Jill Savla discusses a patient with School of Medicine faculty members Randall Gibb, M.D. (left), and Gil Gross, M.D., while shadowing them as part of her undergraduate course “Understanding the Evidence: Provocative Topics of Women’s Health and Reproduction.” Savla and others in the class are witnessing live births, surgical procedures and direct patient care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital as well as attending lectures about elective cesarean section, cancer genetics, hormone replacement and sex selection. Gibb and Gross are assistant professors in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.