Republished with permission from here. Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, an OB/GYN, doesn’t have a typical office.Inside are rows of hanging plaques and accolades, a photo of him with former President Bill Clinton, and a set of microphones, connected to a radio broadcasting system. A sign that says “Latino Public Radio” hangs ... Read more
Anna Delamerced
Updated June 26, 2022 by Anna Delamerced
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
Republished with permission from here. I spent one year working full-time as a pharmacy technician at a high-volume community pharmacy prior to entering medical school. Besides learning the intricacies of billing and the dispensing process, ... Read more
Sarayna Schock
Updated June 26, 2022 by Sarayna Schock
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
Reposted from here with permission. As a medical student, I always carry naloxone in my backpack. Naloxone is the antidote for opioid overdoses, and is readily available at most pharmacies in Boston. My medical school, ... Read more
Jawad Husain
Updated June 26, 2022 by Jawad Husain
Republished with permission from here. Being a pre-medical student is largely about the numbers — your MCAT score, your rank in your graduating college class, whether that subpar performance in organic chemistry will lethally impact ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 26, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
Republished with permission from here. Note: Interview conducted by medical student editor Evan Torline. Sometimes it takes the challenges of life to teach us what’s most important to us, and Kyle Romines knows this all too ... Read more
Evan Torline
Updated June 26, 2022 by Evan Torline
In early 2012, medical students Ajay Major and Aleena Paul started in-Training.org, a website dedicated to the medical student community at large with a goal—according to the site—to become “the intellectual center for news, commentary, ... Read more
Student Doctor Network
Updated June 26, 2022 by Student Doctor Network
Republished with permission from here. Earlier in the summer, I was speaking with a friend from medical school while we were studying for Step 1, the big test taken by medical students at the end ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brent Schnipke
Reposted from here with permission The day Mr. Webster appeared on our service, I was late for morning rounds with our resident. Morning rounds are the time set aside for each medical student to present a summary ... Read more
Katelee Mueller
Updated June 26, 2022 by Katelee Mueller
Reposted from here with permission. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”–attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. In December of 2014, one week after the non-indictment ... Read more
Suhas Gondi
Updated June 26, 2022 by Suhas Gondi
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
Republished with permission from here. One after the other, day after day it seems, I find myself in a room where the resident is breaking the news of terminal cancer to my patients, and I ... Read more
Erica Patel
Updated June 26, 2022 by Erica Patel
Reposted from here with permission She was a petite, otherwise well-appearing woman, apprehensively sitting at the edge of the examination table. Hoping to mask my nervousness about this first, intimate patient encounter, I inquired about the reason ... Read more
Nita Chen
Updated June 26, 2022 by Nita Chen
Reposted from here with permission It is one thing to be a doctor and another to be a patient. It is a radically different thing to be a medical student paired by your medical school to ... Read more
Vivienne Meljen
Updated June 18, 2019 by Vivienne Meljen
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
Republished with permission from here. In the rest of the house, the noise of the party is deafening: the clink of glasses, the sizzle of burgers on the grill, the excited cries of relatives reunited after ... Read more
Katherine Caldwell
Updated June 13, 2019 by Katherine Caldwell
Reposted from here with permission. Originally published March 17, 2015. What were you doing on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, at 9 p.m. EST? Were you taking a bath? Were you having a meal? Most people ... Read more
Sumit Patel
Updated June 27, 2022 by Sumit Patel
Republished with permission from here. At 8 a.m. every morning of the work week, I show up to class and make every bit of a dramatic entrance — slapping high fives to people in the front row, ... Read more
Luke Murray
Updated June 26, 2019 by Luke Murray