Contributing Writer Emeritus
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
My name is Danielle Roberts, and I am a student in the Class of 2016 at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. I received a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. I currently serve as the co-president of my school’s charter of Family Medicine Interest Group and as a mentor for first years enrolled in the rural health elective.
Born of a British father and a Chilean mother, having lived in Argentina for most of my childhood, and subsequently moving to Texas, I have developed an appreciation for cultural and linguistic differences. I embark in the field of medicine with the hope of reducing health disparities among minority and under-served populations and promoting cultural competence among health care providers.
“Would you like one meatball or two?” The words stumbled off my tongue as I smiled sheepishly at the people I was serving dinner to. Throughout my first few weeks of medical school, I had frequently experienced the same acute awareness of my own inadequacy. From long hours spent in the gross anatomy lab in a mixed state of amazement, perplexity and reverence, to the scrutiny of seemingly cryptic pink shapes in histology lab, I …
Contributing Writer Emeritus
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
My name is Danielle Roberts, and I am a student in the Class of 2016 at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. I received a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. I currently serve as the co-president of my school’s charter of Family Medicine Interest Group and as a mentor for first years enrolled in the rural health elective.
Born of a British father and a Chilean mother, having lived in Argentina for most of my childhood, and subsequently moving to Texas, I have developed an appreciation for cultural and linguistic differences. I embark in the field of medicine with the hope of reducing health disparities among minority and under-served populations and promoting cultural competence among health care providers.
