I have to write a “perfect medical school personal statement.” I have to write about learning and growth. I want to show empathy and grit. Most of all, I must resonate with the medical school admissions committee reading my story. The overw…
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Is medicine right for you? Exploring the benefits and challenges of a health care career.
As a current medical student, I often encounter students considering a health care career. Understandably, this career is appealing. Being a physician lets you make a positive impact on people’s lives, along with many other benefits. However, bec…
Proposing solutions to end bias in the medical residency selection process
Getting into medical school is arguably the largest barrier to entry into the physician profession, but it is not the only one. Previously, I covered who gets to succeed in medical school and who gets to graduate. In this article, I look at who gets to…
Focused to a fault: Medical education and how it holds us hostage from living well
One of the head-scratchers about American culture is that anxiety, depression, unwanted weight gain, and a soaring prevalence of lifestyle diseases clearly plague our society. Yet, the primary metric we use to measure our country’s “success…
Pfizer Expects Covid Vaccine And Pill Revenues Will Fall 60% In 2023
Shares of the pharmaceutical giant fell Tuesday as investors respond to lower projected sales for Pfizer’s core products combatting Covid-19.
The medical school selection process may be more crucial for shaping the future physician workforce
Every year, thousands of applicants in the United States register for the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). Many graduate medical education (GME) programs receive thousands of applications that are reviewed by recruitment teams with fewe…
Protecting reproductive rights: the importance of abortion training for medical trainees
As I was walking between classes as a pre-medical undergraduate student in 2018, I saw that the Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment was distributing hats that read “PROTECT ROE v. WADE.” I picked one up and stepped into my classroom, on…
The uncomfortable truths about comfortable scrubs
I love joggers. If I had to pick a piece of clothing to wear every day for the rest of my life, it would be joggers. I wear them constantly — outside the hospital, that is. These days, this choice makes me an anomaly. Like the ubiquitous clogs in the O…
Shame as an unethical teaching tool
The senior medical student is hours into her on-call shift on her surgical rotation. She’s been up since four, exhausted, and can’t remember if she had eaten anything since breakfast. The staff surgeon on call “pimps” her on sur…
7 tips to survive night float
My friend texted me the other day that she was thinking of quitting her training program. Some schedule changes earlier in the year led to her being scheduled for back-to-back month-long night float rotations. She was in the middle of her second straig…
