Generally, most health professionals thrive on being problem-solvers. When meeting patients, many professionals take on the role of sleuth to diagnose the problems that address the chief complaints. With a toolkit of therapies and therapeutics, health professionals like to come up with the solution, “Take two of these pills and ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated December 5, 2024 by Emil Chuck, PhD
It is Tuesday at 1:30 PM and the eight of us, two faculty leaders and six students, are sitting around a rectangular table on the third floor of the medical school. Dr. Mathews turns to ... Read more
Hillary Mullan
Updated June 24, 2022 by Hillary Mullan
At the end of sophomore year in college, I punched in my biology and chemistry grades on a calculator and noted my so-so science GPA. Fortunately, my humanities and social science grades brought up my ... Read more
Yoo Jung Kim
Updated February 16, 2019 by Yoo Jung Kim
Demonstrating proficiency in the basic sciences is a hallmark of a good medical school application, but given that focus on completing STEM-based premedical prerequisites with the highest grades possible, many premed students forget that courses ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated February 2, 2019 by Cassie Kosarek
Republished with permission from here. Summer It didn’t take long for the truth to come out. We had just completed our second week of medical school, the anticipated “Week on the Wards” in which each ... Read more
Amara Frumkin
Updated June 26, 2022 by Amara Frumkin
Reposted from here with permission. As I sat in my institution’s white coat ceremony this past fall, I listened to our dean describe the process of selecting the newest batch of future doctors. I’m an MD/PhD student, ... Read more
Amanda King
Updated June 14, 2019 by Amanda King