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Articles
Third Year of Medical School: 5 Most Important Aspects of Studying
Take a deep breath, you made it past the Step/Level 1 and you are finally in the hospital. You are excited to get out of the classroom and be a part of the healthcare team. With all the great excitement…
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How to Prepare Efficiently for Boards (and other Standardized Tests)
Preparation for the medical boards should be an extension of the care a future physician intends to provide to their patients. Amid the many demands medical students face, it is imperative to carve out time for dedicated and focused study.…
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Boosting Your Chances as an Out-of-State Applicant
It’s impossible to get accepted to out-of-state medical schools. Why would I waste my time — and money — applying? Yes, the odds are higher of getting accepted to your in-state school or a private school. However, it is quite…
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7 Things Nurses Say Doctors Should Know About the Nursing Profession
In an ideal world, doctors and nurses would all have trusting, respectful working relationships, but sadly that’s not the case. Doctors sometimes have a chip on their shoulder and talk down to nurses, treating them as lesser members of the…
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How to Build Healthy Relationships with Nursing Staff
In doctor-nurse interactions, doctors wear the pants…or rather, the lab coats. Doctors often set the tone for both individual interactions and team dynamics at large, and nurses and other medical professionals look to them for cues on how they should…
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Is Education Actually for Learning?
As students, especially those on the medical track, do we attend lectures to learn or play the game of simply getting the highest grade possible in the easiest way? As pre-medical students, we’re driven to get that golden ticket –…
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Residency & Beyond
A Look into the Field of Internal Medicine
In the past decade, it seems that the number of students choosing to pursue Internal Medicine in medical school has decreased. A combination of passion, money, schooling, and rank all play a part in this decline. Though the specialty is…
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Balancing Medical School and Family Life
My wife and I welcomed our son into this world during my second semester of medical school. Quickly I had to adapt my approach to my studies and the process was exceptionally challenging. As I reflect back on the immense…
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Applying to Medical School
Remembering Who We Are
By Matthew Welzenbach As your resume builds and you go further along in your medical training, it is easy to become ‘jaded’ with the medical profession. In medical school, USMLE exams are these monsters that everyone is simply trying to…
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Applying to Medical School
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Keep on Trying
By Dakota Buhrman 67. 67 is the number of rejections I received over the course of two application cycles to medical school. Right around rejection letter number 30, I started to field questions from concerned friends and family members. They…
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