How You Can Support SDN On #GivingTuesday
Help us reach our #GivingTuesday goal of 100 new donors and 100 new Interview Feedback responses: • Become an SDN donor …
Welcome To Our House: A Dental School Virtual Tour
Dental students spend more time at school than their own houses with people they see more often than their own …
A-Earners vs Life-Long Learners
The struggle of dental students to find academic balance It’s the morning of an exam. My fourth exam in five …
Caring for Your Mental Health in Medical School
Medical school is characterized, and often caricatured, by the immense levels of stress that plague students throughout their four-year education. …
5 Things to Consider When Choosing Your Global Health Experience
Learning about a new culture, seeing how healthcare is done in another country, and building your language skills are just …
Self-Care Is Not Selfish
We’re a few months into the new medical year and wherever your spouse is at in their medical journey, they’re …
How Research Can Maximize Your Residency Match Success
Welcome to “Research for the Rest of Us”, a column about navigating the complex intricacies of life in the lab. …
How To Avoid The Comparison Game
When we matched for residency, our program brought us close to some good friends we have known since college. These …
Maintaining A Relationship When Both Partners Are In Medical or Graduate School
My boyfriend began medical school the same fall I began graduate school. We met the year before when we were …
How to Improve Information Recall with a Memory Palace
Welcome to the final part of our blog series exploring proven study strategies used by Osmosis to make learning medicine …
TMDSAS: What It Is and How To Prepare
The Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service, TMDSAS, is the common application service for all state-funded medical, dental, and …
How to Write a Prescription: 7 Steps for Safety
In 2017, over four billion prescriptions were filled at pharmacies across the United States. Given their sheer prevalence, prescriptions are …
Gain a Deeper Understanding with the Power of Test-Enhanced Learning
Welcome to part two of our blog series in which we share proven learning strategies behind the Osmosis platform that …
How to Create and Live On A Student Budget
It’s a fact of life: you need money to pay expenses that allow you to live comfortably. When you’re attending …
What Do I Wear? Basic Interview Attire for Men
Fall is in the air, and you wait patiently as the medical school application cycle continues. Several weeks have passed …
How Spaced Repetition Enhances Learning
One of the biggest challenges of learning medicine is the sheer amount of information students are expected to process and …
Handling Sexual Harassment as a Medical Student
Changing dressings on diabetic ulcers is not particularly pleasant. The oozing, the meticulousness of laying down protective layers, and the …
Purposeful Prescribing: A Dentist’s Role in the Opioid Epidemic
In our oral surgery student clinic, we have a laminated sheet to reference when writing our two most common post-surgical …
A World Healed of Trafficking: Healthcare’s Role in Confronting Modern-Day Slavery
A dozen clinic staff walked into the training with skepticism. “This is a waste of time,” they muttered. “Human trafficking …
10 Items To Add To Your Back To School Shopping List
With the start of classes quickly approaching (and Amazon Prime Day just around the corner!) now is the time to …