It’s become increasingly more common for premeds to take at least one gap year between their undergrad and medical school. In fact, 62.6% of entering MD students in 2017 reported taking at least one gap ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 24, 2022 by AAMC Staff
As a researcher at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA, I have a front row seat to the rapidly evolving field of medical genetics. If my time at the Broad has taught me anything, it’s ... Read more
Julia Bauman
Updated February 1, 2019 by Julia Bauman
Welcome to “Research for the Rest of Us”, a column about navigating the complex intricacies of life in the lab. These articles aren’t for the superhuman Nature-publishing, Nobel Prize-winning MD/PhDs out there, but rather for ... Read more
Trevor C. Hunt
Updated June 24, 2022 by Trevor C. Hunt
The educational requirements needed to become an occupational therapist (OT) are continually changing to improve the notoriety and efficacy of the profession. The Board of Directors at the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) discuss ongoing ... Read more
Brittany Ferri
Updated February 1, 2019 by Brittany Ferri
A full-term female infant is born to a healthy 34-year-old woman. Newborn examination reveals a broad chest with widely spaced nipples, a webbed neck, and lymphedema of the feet. Investigations including a karyotype analysis are ... Read more
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Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
A look at the people valued more as functioning machines than as people This past week, the Carver College of Medicine hosted its 12th annual Examined Life Conference. Our featured presenter, journalist and memoirist Sarah Smarsh, grew up ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
How to find friends outside of the medical world A big part of surviving medical school and training as a medical spouse is having support. It’s way too challenging to do on your own. You ... Read more
Amy Rakowczyk
Updated June 24, 2022 by Amy Rakowczyk
Several years ago, banks and mortgage lenders began targeting doctors who recently graduated from medical school or residency for special home mortgages called a “physician’s mortgage loan” or doctor’s mortgage. These loans look past the ... Read more
Justin Havre
Updated August 16, 2022 by Justin Havre
Dental students spend more time at school than their own houses with people they see more often than their own families. So what exactly happens inside this home-away-from-home? Let’s take a walk through the halls ... Read more
Abbey Tadros
Updated June 24, 2022 by Abbey Tadros
The struggle of dental students to find academic balance It’s the morning of an exam. My fourth exam in five days, I might add. My classmates and I race against the clock to cram in ... Read more
Kelsey Gwin
Updated June 24, 2022 by Kelsey Gwin
A 24 year-old female presents with a history of multiple ankle sprains and complains of difficulty keeping up with her peers on group walks. An X-Ray of her foot demonstrates pes cavus and hammer toes. ... Read more
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Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Our newest co-host has already had a taste of fame. Abby Fyfe joins the crew this time, along with Aline Sandouk, Jayden Bowen, and Aditi Patel. Turns out, Abby is an old hand at being ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
Part 1: Do Physicians Really Need Nutrition Education? It is a well-known adage that one should not reference the incendiary topics of politics, religion, or money in a civil conversation. I would posit that nutrition ... Read more
Casey Paton
Updated February 27, 2019 by Casey Paton
So far in this series, we have covered the main settings of occupational therapy (OT) and challenges to practicing in such settings. The key to learning what barriers are in each setting is understanding OT’s ... Read more
Brittany Ferri
Updated February 27, 2019 by Brittany Ferri
Emergency medicine draws many students towards it because of the lifestyle-friendly aspect, shift work, and variety of procedures that a physician in the emergency department (ED) performs. The thread ED Procedures for Med Students is an excellent ... Read more
Emily Millet
Updated June 24, 2022 by Emily Millet
The “right to try movement” is often presented as an altruistic effort to provide patients with terminal illness increased access to potentially lifesaving experimental medication. This rosy rhetoric stands in stark contrast with reality, however. ... Read more
Adil Menon
Updated June 24, 2022 by Adil Menon
A 69-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and irritable bowel syndrome presents with multiple ring-shaped lesions on both hands. The lesions are non-pruritic and developed over the past four days. When she visits for ... Read more
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Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Jennifer Anderson, a sociology PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, teaches a course called Sociology of Health and Health Care. She reached out to us to propose that her students would send in questions for ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
You’ve decided you want to be a veterinarian – but how do you know it’s the right career for you? While many prospective applicants to veterinary school cite a love of animals as the driving ... Read more
Claire Porter
Updated June 24, 2022 by Claire Porter