Student Life As a leader of the Temple Emergency Action Corps (TEAC), Tomi Sodeke, Class of 2015, regularly cares for residents of homeless shelters in Philadelphia and has treated barrio residents in Managua, Nicaragua. The long-distance runner is also a student-tour guide and the student representative on the TUSM Admissions Committee. A daughter of immigrants from West Africa, the Union, New Jersey, native also allots time for her family—including attending all of her younger sister’s high school plays. How does she juggle it all with medical school? “I tell applicants that, ‘At Temple, it’s not that you are a medical student who sometimes gets to be a person, you are a person who gets to be a medical student,’” says Sodeke. Both her classmates and the administration, particularly Kathleen Reeves, MD, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and her staff, are also very supportive. “If you’re having a rough time,” she says, “you can always go to Dean Reeves.”
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