Candice Kim

About Candice

Candice Kim, M.S. (she/they) is a fifth-year M.D./Ph.D. in Education student. Her research focuses on how to better assess and teach expert clinical decision-making to medical trainees. She is also passionate about designing and assessing curricula in social justice to train the future generation of physicians to be humanistic, culturally responsive healthcare providers. She earned her bachelors and masters degrees in biology from Stanford University and previously conducted research in cancer biology and regenerative medicine. As a queer, gender-fluid student who is a survivor of trauma and has struggled with mental health, she is passionate about advocating for marginalized students, particularly those who have intersectional marginalized identities. She has previously developed curricula for students across the learning spectrum, from K12 to undergraduate/community college to graduate/professional school. In addition to her role with LSP, she is also a Graduate Learning Consultant, Hume Writing Tutor, SHARE Office Flip the Script Facilitator, and Mentors-in-Teaching Fellow. In her free time, she is passionate about creative writing and storytelling. She has developed workshops and programming for Medicine & the Muse and was part of an interdisciplinary team that wrote and drew the forth-coming graphic novel Flying Kites based on the 2013 California prison hunger strike.