A number of articles have previously addressed the importance of shadowing as a medical student and as a medical school aspirant. Many of these are penned by those already well established in their careers who ... Read more
Adil Menon
Updated June 26, 2022 by Adil Menon
A 58-year-old woman presents two days after a cardiac catheterization with malaise, fatigue, and new violaceous livedoid lesions on her feet. She is also found to have mild acute renal dysfunction. What is the cause ... Read more
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Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Let’s just keep talking about treating obesity Fifi Trixiebell (not her real name) wrote to [email protected] asking us to discuss what medical students learn about nutrition, and whether they think the keto diet is just another fad. ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
It is often said that the journey to becoming a doctor is a marathon, not a sprint. In my humble opinion, the comparison is apt. In fact, the premed’s path seems to me like a ... Read more
Julia Bauman
Updated June 24, 2022 by Julia Bauman
Challenges and barriers are inevitably present in any job field. The particular obstacles may vary from setting to setting, or they may be a result of the job itself. No matter the source, it is ... Read more
Brittany Ferri
Updated February 27, 2019 by Brittany Ferri
Dr. Sarah M. Lawrence obtained her Bachelor of Arts in political science (magna cum laude) and her Master of Arts in higher education (Graduate Dean’s Citation) from the University of Louisville. After working in the ... Read more
Crissey Tait
Updated February 27, 2019 by Crissey Tait
The year is 1921. A medical student toils away at a dimly lit lab bench deep in the bowels of the University of Toronto. His intense concentration does not waver even as a bead of ... Read more
Trevor C. Hunt
Updated August 8, 2022 by Trevor C. Hunt
A 70-year-old male with a history of hypertension presents with a fever and severe pain in both his hands. Examination reveals swollen, erythematous, and tender nodules on the joints of his fingers. Arthrocentesis demonstrates negatively ... Read more
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Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Obesity may not be hopeless, but it is very difficult for physicians and sufferers Listener Hannah wrote in after shadowing physicians, noting that many of the morbidly obese patients she observed resisted their doctors’ advice ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
Physician burnout is something of a hot topic nowadays. I say that not to belittle it—it is a major problem that needs to be discussed—but rather to make the point that it sometimes seems that ... Read more
Pratiti Roy
Updated February 18, 2019 by Pratiti Roy
Leading up to our first appointment in clinic, one of my classmates asked our supervising dentist a very insightful question. “What do we tell our patients when they ask if we’ve ever done this on ... Read more
Colson Smith
Updated June 24, 2022 by Colson Smith
Medical nonfiction, as a genre, has grown considerably in recent years as many physicians have taken to writing for a broader audience. Although physicians have always been writers—documenting new research and ideas as various fields ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated January 8, 2019 by Brent Schnipke
Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is a cardiologist and director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD in physics before completing a medical doctorate ... Read more
Christy Duan
Updated June 24, 2022 by Christy Duan
Medical students are bombarded with decisions regarding what they want to do with their lives, from choice of specialty to options within the field itself. Quite a few medical schools these days push for students ... Read more
Adelle
Updated February 28, 2019 by Adelle
A four-year-old girl is referred to a pediatric neurologist with new-onset generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Her father mentions that she has also had sudden episodes of spontaneous unexplained loud laughter for the past year, and they ... Read more
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Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Residency applicants get boosted by AOA, but it could be racially biased Aline Sandouk, Jayden Bowen, Aditi Patel, and newbie Madeline Slater are on hand to answer listener questions, such as J’s query about the utility ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
As you make the decision to pursue a career in medicine, you may wonder, “Where do I even start?” It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the process, but there are a lot of ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 24, 2022 by AAMC Staff
Believe it or not, it is not uncommon to take the MCAT twice. Though sitting for seven hours and thirty minutes more than once is not anyone’s idea of fun, scheduling a second test can ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 24, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
I stood and watched off to the side as the cart wheeled in through the wide double doors into Operation Room 1. It was my first day of shadowing a pediatric neurosurgeon, and so as ... Read more
Kartik Iyer
Updated February 28, 2019 by Kartik Iyer