Preparing Letters of Evaluation for the 2020 AMCAS® Application
The 2020 American Medical College Application Service® (AMCAS®) application will officially open on May 1, 2019, for those applicants planning …
Match Week In Review | Chronicles of a Med Student
Match Week is an important and unique part of each physician’s journey. It is the week during which fourth year …
How To Become A Doctor: An Overview
Most people know that becoming a physician is a long process, but the details for can sometimes be mysterious or …
Speak Up: How To Ace Your First Podium Presentation
The power of public speaking is a profound thing, and one that adept researchers can use to both improve their …
Q&A with Zubin Damania, aka ZDoggMD
Zubin Damania, aka ZDoggMD, is a hospitalist and founder of Turntable Health, a direct primary care clinic in Las Vegas. …
Invent the Future of Medicine, FT. Matthew Howard, MD
See a problem, solve a problem Think of an inventor. What comes to mind? The quirky lone genius, coming up …
Taking A Research Year: What You Should Know
When a medical student approaches the end of third year and is assessing their chances of matching, multiple factors come …
Spotlighting Surgical Specialties
In my last column, I touched on some commonly chosen medical specialties and hopefully cleared up some confusion on what …
Why Med Students Join Medical Societies
Medical Societies and Associations: Are they Useful for Students? Listener Zachary wrote to [email protected] to ask whether it’s useful for …
Choosing a Medical School As A URM Student
Congratulations! You survived the MCAT, AMCAS, secondaries, interviews, and months of waiting. If this cycle did not not work out …
Second Looks and Fantasy Gap Years
As CCOM’s second-look day (which we call Get Acquainted Day) approaches, Aline Sandouk, LJ Agostinelli, Miranda Schene, and Danial Syed …
Preparing the Perfect Poster Presentation
Poster presentations are to medical school as book reports are to grade school. They are ubiquitous, yet nobody really knows …
Coping With An Overwhelmed Spouse
In last month’s article, we addressed the big elephant in the room during medical training: mental health. Most of our medical …
Is Your Previous Career A Strike Against You?
Admissions committees care most about what you got out of your experiences, less about what exactly they were. Here’s a …
It’s Okay to Not Know Everything
As a medical student, you are going to step foot onto a clinical rotation for the very first time armed …
What Research Means For Residency Applications
Does research mean a whole lot when applying to residency? Listener Nathan called in to the SCP Hotline at 347-SHORTCT …
Specialty Spotlight: Internal Medicine and Family Medicine
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a chance to interact with some of the first and second year students …
Doubts, Needles, and Measles
Listener Jen sent an email to [email protected] asking M4 Irisa Mahaparn, and M1s Nick Lind and Madeline Slater about the …
5 Tips for Transitioning From the Preclinical World to the Clinical One
While undeniably more difficult than undergraduate classes, classroom-based courses offer medical students some familiar comfort in their preclinical years. Having …
How To Identify And Fight Implicit Bias in Medicine
Implicit bias refers to the attitudes, beliefs, and associations that influence a person’s actions in an unconscious way. Implicit bias …