“4 ounces water every mile, half an electrolyte ‘gu’ pack over 2.5 miles, ¼ energy bar every 6 miles” — a.k.a. how…
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In medicine, there is a key group of people we seem to be excluding: introverts. I noticed this twice at the recent…
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I’m a default crier. I happy-cry, stress-cry, romantic-comedy-cry, regular-comedy-cry and, apparently, I even doctor-in-training-cry. Crying is a tough response, especially for someone…
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This medical student scored a 281 on the USMLE Step 2 CK. You can, too
by Alyssa Ehrlich March 21, 2018Once a minor hurdle on the road to Match Day, the USMLE Step 2 CK is now required by many residency programs…
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In the mid-1800s, Ignaz Semmelweis, then a professor at Johns Hopkins, proposed something outrageous: Doctors and medical students working in the maternity ward…
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Match Day: the perfect ending to the medical school experience
by Valerie A. Jones MD March 16, 2018The first week of medical school you became a new person. Assigned a cadaver and some partners in your first anatomy lab,…
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Medical students and residents become accustomed to living life in year increments. Four years for medical school, three to five years for…
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For Aspiring Doctors With Disabilities, Many Medical Schools Come Up Short
by Elana Gordon March 13, 2018Enlarge this image Feranmi Okanlami, now a doctor, became partially paralyzed after an accident in 2013. He says adjustments for his disability…