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…
Category: Medical school
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…
Is it really a woke nightmare for medical schools?
Among the many definitions and meanings of the terms “woke” and “wokeism,” the two that capture the ideology best are contrasting meanings. The definitions are: “The behavior and attitudes of people who are sensitive to so…
Sexual health is health: It’s time to embrace that in medicine
For many of us, while in medical school and residency, sexual health history was mostly taught from a disease standpoint. If a patient had a complaint about sexual dysfunction, had a symptom or concern about a sexually transmitted infection, needed con…
