Dr. Abeyna Jones is an occupational medicine registrar at King’s College Hospital and the Medical Director of Medic Footprints, a social enterprise for doctors and medical students promoting alternative careers and wellbeing. She is also ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 26, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
Updated February 15, 2022. The article was updated to correct formatting and minor grammatical errors. Clinical practice guidelines are essentially the Wikipedia of the medical world and are important to students for a number of ... Read more
Guideline Central
Updated June 26, 2022 by Guideline Central
For medical school students, perhaps one of the most difficult choices to be made in the course of their education is what area of medicine to specialize in—or whether to go into general practice. Part ... Read more
Brian Wu
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brian Wu
Are you considering applying to Veterinary School? SDN has you covered! In this infographic, learn about the steps you need to complete to become a veterinary student. Want to learn more? Visit the Student Doctor ... Read more
Student Doctor Network
Updated June 18, 2023 by Student Doctor Network
The 2018 AMCAS application cycle has started! If you plan to apply to attend medical school starting in Fall 2018, the application is now open for you to begin working through the nine different sections ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 26, 2022 by AAMC Staff
You have a great MCAT score, a strong GPA, and have represented yourself and your ambitions to the best of your ability in your medical school admissions essays. Now it seems like the only task ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 26, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
Dr. Tyler Edwards is an attending physician who specializes in family medicine, practicing for almost 15 years. In addition to his duties as a family physician, Dr. Edwards also works as a hospitalist at Frisbie ... Read more
Thomas Richards
Updated June 26, 2022 by Thomas Richards
By Amy Rakowczyk, SDN Staff Writer With Step 1 completed, and hopefully after a little R&R, your spouse is ready to get out there and try their hard-won knowledge in the clinics! Also coming up, ... Read more
Amy Rakowczyk
Updated June 26, 2022 by Amy Rakowczyk
Dr. Cosima Gretton is a medical doctor and product manager at Karius, Inc., a biotech startup specializing in infectious disease genomics. She is also a Technology Entrepreneurship Teaching Fellow at UCL, where she is currently ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 26, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
July 21, 2015 Dear Me, MD: Now that you have opened this letter, you may have graduated or maybe you just matched into residency— somewhere, anywhere, hopefully?! As you read this, it should be some ... Read more
Danielle Bottalico
Updated June 26, 2022 by Danielle Bottalico
While student loans are a necessary financial tool for most of today’s future doctors, the process of repaying them can get complex due to the many types of loans and the accrual of interest. If ... Read more
Maricel Tabalba
Updated June 26, 2022 by Maricel Tabalba
Student Doctor Network
Updated June 26, 2022 by Student Doctor Network
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it…he who doesn’t, pays it. -Albert Einstein Your Life Of Abundance The first thing to note about your life the day ... Read more
CrispyDoc
Updated June 26, 2022 by CrispyDoc
Reposted with permission from here. The Americans gave each family two rabbits, which we were to care for over the summer and eventually cook. Well, as you might imagine, Tante Ingrid and I got quite ... Read more
Hannah Decker
Updated June 26, 2022 by Hannah Decker
During my pediatrics clerkship, one of our core faculty gave a lecture during orientation. This orientation lecture was particularly good, as the professor giving it was one of our most-loved faculty members who is deeply ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brent Schnipke
Introduction & Background The CASPer (Computer-based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics) test is a 90-minute online situational judgment test (SJT) created by McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. This computer-based test is taken in a non-proctored ... Read more
Kevyn To
Updated June 26, 2022 by Kevyn To
Everyone has this perfect image of how fun medical school is when they enter. You daydream about working with patients and saving lives from your first year, but the reality is, medical school is a giant ... Read more
Moudi Hubeishy
Updated June 26, 2022 by Moudi Hubeishy
Are you experiencing clinician burnout? Do you bring your patients’ emotional and physical burdens home with you every night? Yet, do you stay in patient care because you don’t know what else to do?It’s OK. ... Read more
Meredith Castin
Updated October 11, 2022 by Meredith Castin
For a typical medical student shadowing in a clinic for a day, it looks a little something like this: we enter the familiar setting of an outpatient clinic and help as the attending physician sees ... Read more
Adelle
Updated June 26, 2022 by Adelle