Research Basics: Should I Get Involved and How Do I Start?
The year is 1921. A medical student toils away at a dimly lit lab bench ... Read more
Trevor C. Hunt
Updated August 8, 2022 by Trevor C. Hunt
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Your Research Can Change Medicine: Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, Editor-in-Chief, NEJM
Medical journalists and researchers have a responsibility to perform meaningful, reproducible research to guide the ... Read more
DocThoughts
Updated February 28, 2019 by DocThoughts
How To Find an Undergraduate Research Position: 10 Steps to Success
Are you looking to get research experience in your medical, veterinary, or podiatry school application? ... Read more
Dennis Caruana
Updated August 8, 2022 by Dennis Caruana
How to Choose Extracurriculars as a Premedical Student
You may have heard that there’s a “perfect formula” of undergraduate extracurricular activities sought by ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 24, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
Q&A with Ms. Carolann Curry, Reference and Outreach Librarian
Ms. Carolann Curry is a Library Assistant Professor and the Reference & Outreach Librarian at ... Read more
Jacob Adney
Updated June 24, 2022 by Jacob Adney
Q&A with Dr. Harris Eyre, Psychiatry Trainee, Pharmacogeneticist
By Gloria Onwneme, Medical Student, University of Nottingham, UK Dr. Harris Eyre, MD, PhD, Fulbright ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 25, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
Checking the Boxes: Should You Give Up Your Job To Do Research?
Sometimes the requirements aren’t required. Annie wrote in to [email protected] to ask Kaci McCleary, Erik Kneller, Gabriel ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated August 21, 2026 by The Short Coat Podcast
Q&A with Suzanne Tharin, MD/PhD, Neurosurgery
Dr. Suzanne Tharin, MD/Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and a ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated July 22, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
Why Medical Students Need To Understand Statistics: An Interview With a Patho-Geneticist
Dr. Mary Jean M. has spent the last decade researching in various laboratories, from plant ... Read more
Mary Jean M
Updated June 26, 2022 by Mary Jean M
Getting In: The Undergraduate’s Guide to Research Experience
Undergraduate students do not need told, again, how important it is to be involved in ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brent Schnipke
Q&A with Maxine Mackintosh, Health Data Scientist
Maxine Mackintosh (BSc MSc) is a PhD student in data science at University College London, ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 26, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
Osmosis Co-Founders Ryan Haynes and Shiv Gaglani
Ryan Haynes, PhD and Shiv Gaglani, MBA discuss how they went from anatomy partners ... Read more
Student Doctor Network
Updated March 7, 2019 by Student Doctor Network
A Med Student’s Guide to Becoming a Physician-Scientist
When medical students start to think about areas of practice to specialize in once they ... Read more
Brian Wu
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brian Wu
4 Strategies for Students Reapplying to Medical School
In an ideal world, your first attempt at applying to medical school would also be ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 26, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
From "Book Rat" to Neurologist: An Interview with José Cavazos, MD-PhD
As a child, José Cavazos, MD-PhD, was a self-proclaimed “book rat”. So, it makes sense ... Read more
Suzanne Barston
Updated August 21, 2026 by Suzanne Barston
20 Questions: Brian Baxter, PhD
Brian Baxter, PhD, is a current postdoctoral scholar with the DeRisi Group at University of ... Read more
Juliet Farmer
Updated August 21, 2026 by Juliet Farmer
Your Pathway to the White Coat: 7 Tips for Writing Your AMCAS® Personal Comments Essay
The AMCAS application to medical school asks for a lot of information about yourself. It ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated August 21, 2026 by AAMC Staff
The One Letter to Rule Them All
As an undergrad, one of the reasons you devoted so much time to a research ... Read more
David Oppenheimer
Updated August 21, 2026 by David Oppenheimer
Spring Break: Should You Spend It On The Beach Or At The Bench?
For most researchers, working in the lab over a holiday break is somewhat different from ... Read more
Paris Grey
Updated June 26, 2022 by Paris Grey
