Jingyi is a medical student and a Twenty-First Century Scholar at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She grew up in Beijing, China, and went to Dartmouth College. As a philosophy major, she was interested in palliative care, bioethics, and narrative medicine across cultures. She worked with hospice patients in Beijing and rural New Hampshire and studied health disparity in end-of-life care communication through qualitative research. Her thesis focused on supporting patients with dementia in exercising their autonomy when facing their changing sense of self. During her gap year, she studied interdisciplinary palliative care team dynamics and regional variations in care quality. As a medical student, she is involved with the Medical Humanities Council, the literary and arts magazine apenndx, Unity Clinic, the Palliative Care Student Interest Group, and the Language Access Alliance. In her free time, she enjoys books, films, and food. Talk to Jingyi about medical humanities, bioethics, palliative care, or anything related to medicine!