Many students arrive at medical school with a bias that their liberal arts education has instilled, namely, that they should survey everything before deciding on their specialty. Before medical school, students matriculate at colleges that ... Read more
Michelle Finkel
Updated June 26, 2022 by Michelle Finkel
This article is reprinted with permission from the American Student Dental Association. It originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Mouth. Each year, dental schools across the United States graduate students who were already ... Read more
ASDA
Updated June 26, 2022 by ASDA
Karen M. Winkfield, MD, PhD, is a radiation oncologist with Massachusetts General Hospital, and she divides her time among clinic research in health equity and hematologic malignancies, teaching as assistant professor of radiation oncology at ... Read more
Juliet Farmer
Updated June 26, 2022 by Juliet Farmer
Once you have been selected for an interview at a medical school, you will have the opportunity to visit the campus. Though your priority during this visit will naturally be to excel in your interview, ... Read more
Anubodh “Sunny” Varshney
Updated June 26, 2022 by Anubodh “Sunny” Varshney
Most people wouldn’t normally think of medical school as a risky investment. Sure, there are risks involved when you become a practicing doctor, but going to medical school has always been considered one of the ... Read more
AJ Nguyen
Updated June 26, 2022 by AJ Nguyen
The interview is one of the most important steps in the medical school application process. It’s your chance to get to know the medical school in person while demonstrating good communication skills, professionalism, maturity, and ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 26, 2022 by AAMC Staff
As third year medical students you’re rotating through your general specialties and you think you’re seeing familiar faces but in new places. Isn’t that your newborn nursery resident who assigned APGAR scores, now leading the ... Read more
Eric Chow and Christopher Terry
Updated March 16, 2019 by Eric Chow and Christopher Terry
There is only one guarantee in research: sometimes things fail. It doesn’t matter what your major is, how much experience you have, or whether your research is basic, applied, clinical, or translational. A research project ... Read more
Paris Grey
Updated June 26, 2022 by Paris Grey
Reposted from here with permission. On Valentine’s Day weekend last year I found myself at Paddles, the local dungeon in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, for the first time. I was perched at the alcohol-free bar when a ... Read more
Christy Duan
Updated May 25, 2021 by Christy Duan
It is that time of year again. Medical school students across the country are preparing applications for residency and pursuing audition rotations at residencies they are hoping to woo into an interview and hopefully to match ... Read more
Jeff Steiner
Updated June 26, 2022 by Jeff Steiner
Dr. Jennifer Luna-Repose, DVM, is currently practicing at Alternatives For Animals in Lafayette, Calif., where she is an associate DVM. Dr. Luna-Repose received a bachelor’s degree in biology from University of California, Santa Cruz (1999), ... Read more
Juliet Farmer
Updated June 26, 2022 by Juliet Farmer
For the past several years, I felt like all I heard was everyone in medical school telling me how hard it is. I was a little worried, especially since I took a year off of ... Read more
Adelle
Updated June 26, 2022 by Adelle
Students will feel a variety of emotions during the weeks and days leading up to the start of medical school, ranging from excitement to anxiety. Below are five key things I learned during my first ... Read more
Anubodh “Sunny” Varshney
Updated June 26, 2022 by Anubodh “Sunny” Varshney
As a medical student, you spend four years of college and the first two years of medical school studying non-stop for what feels like thousands of hours, cramming your brain with knowledge. But when the ... Read more
Judith Kalinyak
Updated June 26, 2022 by Judith Kalinyak
If you’re interested in a career in medicine, one of the most important and helpful people will be your college’s pre-health advisor. There’s a lot of planning and preparation to do before you’ll be ready ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated August 16, 2022 by AAMC Staff
We all want to train to become the best clinicians we can be, but education in the health professions is often like drinking from a firehose. Worse yet, most of us haven’t learned how to learn – ... Read more
Peter Wei and Alex Chamessian
Updated June 26, 2022 by Peter Wei and Alex Chamessian
The personal statement is, for many, one of the most dreaded aspects of the medical school application. It can be quite intimidating to be given a blank space so large, with the expectation that you ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brent Schnipke
Mellissa Withers, MHS, PhD, is an assistant clinical professor at University of Southern California (USC) in the Institute for Global Health and leads the Global Health Program of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, a ... Read more
Juliet Farmer
Updated June 26, 2022 by Juliet Farmer
Reposted from here with permission. The circumstances under which Jane and I met were less than ideal. That day, I had already seen a family of maggots making a happy living in someone’s foot and been chastised ... Read more
Sean Sanker
Updated August 23, 2022 by Sean Sanker