A Physician’s Mission: Using Radio to Increase Health Literacy
Republished with permission from here. Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, an OB/GYN, doesn’t have a typical office. Inside are rows of hanging …
Differentials
Republished with permission from here. *** Summer It didn’t take long for the truth to come out. We had just …
Understanding Our Patients’ Drugs: The Need for a Pharmacy Elective Within Medical School
Republished with permission from here. I spent one year working full-time as a pharmacy technician at a high-volume community pharmacy …
Addiction is a Brain Disease — So Let’s Treat It Like One
Reposted from here with permission. As a medical student, I always carry naloxone in my backpack. Naloxone is the antidote …
True Pass-Fail Curriculum: Key to Learning and Collegiality
Republished with permission from here. Being a pre-medical student is largely about the numbers — your MCAT score, your rank …
Reclaiming a Passion
Republished with permission from here. Note: Interview conducted by medical student editor Evan Torline. Sometimes it takes the challenges of …
Book Review | in-Training: Stories from Tomorrow’s Physicians
In early 2012, medical students Ajay Major and Aleena Paul started in-Training.org, a website dedicated to the medical student community …
On Being a Medical Student
Republished with permission from here. Earlier in the summer, I was speaking with a friend from medical school while we …
Anonymous: How Mental Illness Gets Overlooked In The Hospital
Reposted from here with permission The day Mr. Webster appeared on our service, I was late for morning rounds with our resident. …
Why Black Lives Matter Ought to Matter to Medical Students: A Familiar Message Revisited
Reposted from here with permission. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and …
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 …
No Happy Ending
Republished with permission from here. One after the other, day after day it seems, I find myself in a room …
Hysterectomy or SSRIs?
Reposted from here with permission She was a petite, otherwise well-appearing woman, apprehensively sitting at the edge of the examination table. Hoping …
Blurred Lines: The Doctor-Patient Relationship-in-Training
Reposted from here with permission It is one thing to be a doctor and another to be a patient. It is …
Bedside Ethics: The Story of Jane and John
Reposted from here with permission. The circumstances under which Jane and I met were less than ideal. That day, I had already …
Lost in Translation
Republished with permission from here. In the rest of the house, the noise of the party is deafening: the clink of …
Two Days to Destiny
Reposted from here with permission. Originally published March 17, 2015. What were you doing on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, at …
Why I Smile
Republished with permission from here. At 8 a.m. every morning of the work week, I show up to class and make every …
Humane Medicine
Republished with permission from here. “What can you do here that we can’t do at home?” This question angered my resident. …
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Clinical Students
Republished with permission from here. Congratulations! You’ve made it to the clinical portion of medical school. Now you’ll work alongside …