Cindy K. Chen

find me on bluesky.

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

start of a new chapter... which means new pinned bio! hi my name is Cindy and I'm an MD-PhD student at @ColumbiaPS.

I like to tweet about stats, research, and fun/silly things in my life. come say hi!!! #MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter

[OHDSI @OHDSI]

Thank you to our amazing #OHDSI2025 volunteers for all their assistance at the global symposium. As @cindykchen says, they are "in our showgirl era." 😄 #JoinTheJourney

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

@OHDSI I made it!

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

I'm leaving this app! Clearing out my data very soon but if you want to find me on another text app, I'm cindykchen on blue sky 💕 see you all there.

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

@ColumbiaDBMI @apara_kashyap1 @pooja_m_desai @AMIAinformatics It's over now but my poster was actually called "Learning a latent confounding representation in high-dimensional observational studies with EHRs via a variational autoencoder" 😅😅😅

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

@AnnieWayBack Annie it has been so long!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I'm so happy you popped up in my notifs

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

A return from my bird app hiatus, just to retweet this photo but it's because I think it's funny how TINY I look 😭

[OHDSI @OHDSI]

Great start to our #OHDSI2024 Collaborator Showcase with 8 great lightning talks! Thanks to all of our community members who shared their exciting research! #JoinTheJourney

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

is this too niche

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

maturing is realizing machine learning is just linear algebra

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

Hi @ProfBrianKirby, why havent you tweeted in a year :(

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

No but the other days I wrote myself a "fill in the blank" for when my neural net finishes running

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

Op was talking about residency PS but I feel like this piece of advice holds for med school PS too haha.

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

Honestly THIS.

[Samrat Babu Koirala @SamratSpeaks]

1. Don't read any personal statements before you write the first draft. It is like watching a movie before reading the novel. You will be wrecking your original ideas. It will act as a guardrail to your flow of thought.

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

@lachicdelapt512 yes. you will be okay! I bought one but then I learned I preferred taking notes on my laptop😅

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

cleaned out my med student locker + white coat a week or so ago and it was equally (probably more) gross

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

wearing my patagonia for the first time since rotations and in my pockets I found:
- 4 used N95s (ew)
- 1 granola bar wrapper
- 3 candy wrappers
- 2 pens
- a HPI/presentation template notes sheet

🙃i really jammed everything in my pockets when i was rotating

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

So we’re clear:

The Supreme Court ended affirmative action yesterday by saying you CAN’T discriminate by helping a minority group, then turned around today and said you CAN discriminate by hurting them.

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

@ditzymed Def a situation where you just have to find what works for you bc some of my classmates didn't use Anki at all and did great! It's not the end all be all and honestly making my own cards didn't take long at all (made my own for MCAT too!)

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

@ditzymed I actually really enjoyed it and I learned a lot from doing that LOL so it worked out really well for me.

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

@aieaieo I just think it's important to recognize people learn differently and it kinda sucks people are trying to get rid of lectures all together given how much it helped people like me

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

So... Am I the only med student who genuinely enjoyed going to lecture 💀

[Cindy K. Chen @cindykchen]

@aieaieo I'm very pro-non mandatory attendance though I think everyone should be able to choose. But it was amazing for my mental health being able to see my classmates every day because otherwise I never leave my room