Learner Profile
Dua Malkawi

HMX Courses

Physiology, Biochemistry

A recent graduate of the medical school at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Dua Malkawi is now in clinical research training at Harvard Medical School. She plans to pursue a residency in internal medicine, and took HMX courses while studying for her USMLE Step 1 exam.

My interest in medicine is in endocrinology; what I like about the courses is they connect the academics of physiology and biochemistry and the clinical [applications].

I plan to do research in endocrinology, and physiology and biochemistry will of course help me a lot, and remind me of the basic things [that relate to] endocrinology. I found the physiology course helped a lot, because it’s related to the endocrine system; it talks more about the physiological mechanisms in the body.

I’m [also] preparing for my USMLE [Step 1 exam], and physiology and biochemistry helped me a lot.

[I liked] the lesson notepads. I printed them and filled the notes in – that helped me in taking notes.

I highly recommend it for medical students after graduation, because it reminds you of the basic things of medicine, in a clinical way. That’s very good…especially when you see real patients with real symptoms, and put the basics [together with] the clinical. In medical school, the first three years, it’s all about basics, and you never know the practical things. And then you go to clinical life, and you forget about the basics. So I think this course connects between them.