Reducing Student Loan Payments: Simple Strategies
If you are struggling to repay your student loans, you may have several options to choose from. However, it is …
Thinking of Online Shopping: Some Items for Success
As many can attest, online shopping has been beneficial and convenient, while helping to set many professional students and healthcare …
Financial Management as a New Doctor: Where to Start
Congratulations to all the new doctors! You are all going to save a lot of lives! You may earn fame …
Act II: A Career in Healthcare After Being a Performer
When thinking about the life of a pre-health student, what comes to mind? Is it a performer? Or perhaps an …
Time to Protect Your Online Privacy
From savior to, in some people’s minds, perpetrator, as the pandemic has progressed, frontline health workers have become frequent subjects …
How Healthcare Equity Impacts Patient Care
As an undergraduate studying health education, I was first exposed to the lack of equity in healthcare when I worked …
It Pays to Be an Early (Financial) Bird
Let’s just say I’ve been around the financial block a few times. So forgive me if I paraphrase a hit you’d probably …
Let’s Talk About Your Financial Health
As a medical student or medical-student-to-be, I’m guessing you were one of the best readers in your elementary school class. …
Mary Bluthardt PharmD, MBA: Young Pharmacist Profile
Mary Bluthardt PharmD, MBA is a Pharmacy Manager-PIC (Person in Charge) at an independent community/mail order pharmacy in her native state …
Get It Before It’s Too Late: Disability Insurance
“What the [bleep] are you doing!? Don’t risk injuring your hands! We’re surgeons for goodness sake,” said my minimally invasive …
Legal Matters: Joining a Board
Congratulations! You have graduated from residency and are establishing yourself in your local community. Now that you have more free …
Beyond the ICD code: How to better interact with patients with disabilities
Disabilities The Centers for Disease Control defines disability as “any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it …
Campus Dorm Resident Assistants Adjust to a New Role: COVID Cop
Originally published on Kaiser Health News, October 6, 2020 Breaking up parties, confiscating booze and answering noise complaints — being …
Colleges’ Opening Fueled 3,000 COVID Cases a Day, Researchers Say
by Michael McAuliff. Originally published by KHN.org on September 23, 2020. Reopening colleges drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000 …
Legal Matters: Employment Contract Basics
You have worked hard through college, medical school, and your residency. Now you can see the light at the end …
Addressing COVID-19 in Application Essays
This application cycle, many healthcare professional school applications have been affected by COVID-19. Many professions have dropped official transcript requirements, …
Shopping List for Back to Virtual School Success
Classes will be starting soon, but for many students, the COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted in a virtual component still …
SDN Editorial Board Accepting Applications
SDN strives to publish high-quality feature articles to serve as a resource for our membership and visitors. Our vision in …
How to Get Legal Help
As you move along your journey to become a medical professional, eventually you are going to come across issues that …
Underrepresented in Healthcare
Defining who is considered an underrepresented minority (URM), the frequent obstacles they face, and how we can combat these issues …