{"id":1330,"date":"2021-03-29T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:25:28","slug":"student-spotlight-jade-jazmyn-ayers-class-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/student-spotlight-jade-jazmyn-ayers-class-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Jade &amp; Jazmyn Ayers (Class of 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Class of 2021: Twins combine passions for literature, science in emerging area of narrative medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>View full story here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"pagetitle\">Class of 2021: Twins combine passions for literature, science in emerging area of narrative medicine<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Identical twins Jade and Jazmyn Ayers have immersed themselves in literature and personal narratives for years. Not only has it led each to major in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/major-minor\/\">English<\/a>, it also has spurred them to come up with a creative way to pair storytelling with another of their passions: medicine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sisters, who are also majoring in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/mhs\/\">medicine, health and society<\/a>, are applying to medical school with a focus in the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of narrative medicine, which employs creative skills from the humanities to enable caregivers to help patients voice their experiences with health issues more clearly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work through our English major is helping build critical thinking and analysis as well as empathy and care for people and their stories,\u201d Jazmyn said. \u201cI think a lot of times the doctor-patient relationship can get lost in translation in medical terms, with so much focus on science that you kind of forget about people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\u201cOur work through our English major is helping build critical thinking and analysis as well as empathy and care for people and their stories,\u201d Jazmyn said. \u201cI think a lot of times the doctor-patient relationship can get lost in translation in medical terms, with so much focus on science that you kind of forget about people.\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue to read<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View full story here Class of 2021: Twins combine passions for literature, science in emerging area of narrative medicine Identical twins Jade and Jazmyn Ayers have immersed themselves in literature and personal narratives for years. Not only has it led each to major in\u00a0English, it also has spurred them to come up with a creative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}