Clerkship

Karena Nguyen, M.D.’25, is a Larner alumna and internal medicine intern at the University of California–San Diego.

In the following blog post, she reflects on the profound connection created by sharing an experience at Cho Ray Hospital, where her father served there as a child. This moment transformed a long-held dream into reality, reinforcing the emotional impact of her global health rotation as a medical student in Vietnam.