A Comprehensive Guide To Medical Career Interviews
Interviews are often stressful—even for those who have gone on countless interviews. The best way to reduce the stress is …
The Soft Skills You Need to be a Leader in Medicine
Medicine needs a strong core of leadership now more than ever. Medical students and new physicians spend massive amounts of …
An Introduction to Student Loans
Consider these three questions. First, what is a loan? Second, how is it typically is structured? Third, do you know …
How Test Prep Prepares Me To Be An Effective Physician
Before medical school, the dream of becoming a physician involves helping people and curing disease. During medical school, that dream …
Managing Bipolar Disorder in Medical School
Two days before interviewing at the medical school I now attend, I couldn’t get out of bed. At the nadir …
How My Research Degree Taught Me I’m Not a Surgeon
Recognizing the connection between lab work and surgery What surprised me the most during my medical school journey was that …
How Nontraditional Students Can Best Position Themselves When Applying to Med School
A friend of mine studied film in college and subsequently found himself working as a cameraman for a documentary television …
Paving the Road to Medical School
The path to becoming a doctor can feel daunting. For those of us that don’t come from a medical family, …
Q&A with Physician-Author with Michael Collins, MD
Tell me about yourself – who you are, what you do, where you practice. I am an orthopedic surgeon in …
Diversity in Med School: Why It’s Important and What Minority Applicants Need to Know
While getting accepted into medical school is more difficult than ever in America, there are some particular challenges facing would-be medical …
Sleep Deprivation and Residents: Are We on the Right Track?
The tradition of long hours on the floor is an old one in American medical training. And criticism of this …
Who Makes a Good Doctor? How Medical Schools Around the World Try to Find the Best Candidates
One of the continuing challenges for medical schools both here in the United States and around the world is to …
Choosing a Residency That’s Right for You
If you are in medical school, you have been making choices for a long time now, from what to major …
Q&A With Stephen Aichele, PhD – Quantitative Psychologist
Stephen Aichele, PhD, is a research scientist in Switzerland in University of Geneva’s Psychology & Educational Sciences Department. Aichele received …
The Dangerous Devolution of Physicians into Technicians
Reposted from here with permission. As I sat in my institution’s white coat ceremony this past fall, I listened to our dean …
Physician Employment Contracts Part II: The Story Continues
Make sure to check out Part I here! Today’s article takes a closer look at several key terms in employment …
Junior Doctor Stress and What Can be Done about It
Junior doctors [and residents in the US] do a valuable and sometimes life-saving job for patients. They are the future …
The Unmatched Student’s Guide to Successfully Dealing with Failure
I was in the middle of a fairly busy day on the palliative care ward, so I had to slip …
5 Soft Skills Every Pre-Med Student Needs
Though the emphasis of the medical school application process lies on academic achievement, there are a number of personal qualities …
20 Questions: David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM – Neurologist
Neurologist David Perlmutter, Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and member of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, …