"You have to feel your way through it and you have to be sad, and you have to step outside and cry for 20 minutes. Um… and call your mom, and feel that before you can be able to be the doctor who saves lives and sees the loss of life without feeling it in there."
Chetali
Chetali Jain is a third-year medical student who grew up in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan. She studied microbiology and writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she also worked as a local journalist and EMT. Prior to attending medical school, Chetali spent a year traveling the world on her own as a Bonderman Fellow, which provided her the opportunity to engage with people and cultures in more than 15 countries over eight months. Her travels reinforced her desire to get involved in global health initiatives at Einstein. In 2021, Chetali was captain of a team that placed second among 52 university groups in a global-health case competition in which her team designed a COVID-19 vaccination program addressing vaccine hesitancy in Nigeria. More recently, Chetali has presented her research in Washington, DC on One Health initiatives in Uganda, which recognizes that the health of the environment, animals, and people are inextricably intertwined. During her third year of medical school, Chetali has enjoyed all her rotations but feels especially called to emergency medicine, a field that links the social side of medicine to a wide range of specialties and embodies her commitment to provide care to patients of all backgrounds.