Category: Medical school

How female physicians are changing the game for women entrepreneurs [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we have Samantha Lai, a medical student as our guest. She will discuss the disparity in venture capital investment for startups led by women, and how this gap can be narrow…

Increasing diversity is impossible with the current medical school admission practices

This article is sponsored by BeMo Academic Consulting, one of the most sought-after academic consulting firms for helping applicants with admissions to highly competitive programs and its staunch advocacy for fair admissions. It is no secret that it is…

The future of medicine is now: AI’s role in diagnostics and treatment

OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm a couple of months ago when they opened it up for public use. Since then, people have shown the infinite number of ways it can be applied in just about every area of life, from telling you the recipe for y…

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…

Who are we losing on the medical education journey? [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “My hope for the future is to see a health care workforce that matches the diversity of the communities it serves. As we continue to push for health equity, we also continue to evalua…

Think you aren’t a part of the destruction of the medical profession? Think again.

As apparent as it may be to the predators of the medical profession, physicians themselves, thinking about the future of what the medical profession will be like by 2040, have yet to understand how they continue to be astonishingly complicit in the upc…

A medical student’s greatest mistake

I made a mistake. I almost failed out of undergrad as a premed. Yet this wasn’t the greatest mistake, the one that’s only now dawning on me as I stand at a crossroads in considerable decision-making despair. Growing up in a loving yet highl…

A retired physician’s medical school memories

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic. President Kennedy’s assassination One cold winter morning, all the medical students had to leave the warmth of the medical school to get to K…

What does it mean to truly be an ally? [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “We can all work to improve our empathy towards those who differ from us. Please continue to keep an open mind and consider true allyship.” Nkem Asianua is a physician assistant…

The mistress of medicine

When I married my husband, I had no idea there would be a mistress one day. When I met the man who would become my husband, he was not yet a doctor. He was 22, a black belt, a waiter in a fancy restaurant, and very handsome. He knew all kinds of things…