non-science classes

4 Non-Science Classes Every Premedical Student Should Take

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 in other disciplines will also bolster the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed as a ... Read more

Cassie Kosarek

Updated February 2, 2019 by Cassie Kosarek

leave patient care

So You Want to Leave Patient Care: Now What?

Are you experiencing clinician burnout? Do you bring your patients’ emotional and physical burdens home with you every night? Yet, do you stay in patient care because you don’t know what else to do?It’s OK. ... Read more

Meredith Castin

Updated October 11, 2022 by Meredith Castin

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Reclaiming a Passion

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

richard friedman

Q&A With Physician-Author Dr. Richard Friedman

Dr. Richard Friedman is a professor of clinical psychiatry and a psychopharmacology clinic director at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he focuses on mood and anxiety disorders. In addition to his research, Dr. Friedman has interests in ... Read more

Christy Duan

Updated June 26, 2022 by Christy Duan

Matt McCarthy

Q&A with Physician-Author Dr. Matt McCarthy

Dr. Matt McCarthy is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and an assistant attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and went on to complete his ... Read more

Christy Duan

Updated June 26, 2022 by Christy Duan

Damon Tweedy

Question & Answer with Physician-Author Dr. Damon Tweedy

Dr. Damon Tweedy is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and a staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center in North Carolina. He graduated from Duke University School of Medicine and completed both his internal ... Read more

Christy Duan

Updated June 26, 2022 by Christy Duan