Brenda Armstrong, MD

"I always tell students that you cannot come to this place and not feel energized. Whether you're in class or on the wards or in the labs, there's an energy that tells people to think things that haven't been thought before."

Ann Brown, MD

"At many medical schools, you either sink or swim, but at Duke, we put a lot of emphasis on helping students navigate their way through the experience and discover what's right for them."

Matt Cartmill, PhD

"We explain not just how things are, but why they are the way they are. Conventionally taught anatomy is a burden on the memory, but making the facts intelligible helps keep them in your head."

Robert Drucker, MD

"The Duke curriculum can seem intimidating at first. As a graduate of Duke, I enjoy sharing my own experiences with students, letting them know that it does work—that there is light at the end of the tunnel."

Caroline Haynes, MD, PhD

"I think psychiatry is the most exciting place in medicine to be right now. We're not in the fine-tuning stage—we are still making fundamental scientific discoveries about how the brain works and interacts with the rest of the body. There are big discoveries yet to be made."

Joanne Wilson, MD

"I tell my students that when they're getting a history from a patient, it's very much like getting a news story. First, get the facts; then try to figure out what's going on."