Throughout my life, I have been trained by Jesuit institutions. I have loved all of what they have prescribed – to “find God in all things,” to “care for the entire person,” to “be a woman with and for others.” But t…
Category: Medical school
Turning obstacles into opportunities with diversified health care perspectives
I have experienced a wide spectrum of the health care ecosystem since childhood giving me a deeper insight into its future need. I suffered for 23 years with a wrong diagnosis and frequent long-distance hospital visits before my heart operation. For 14…
Top tips for new interns [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “New resident physicians who have earned their MD degrees will be heading to hospitals to start their residencies during the last two week in June and the first week in July. What can…
How to make primary care rotations more appealing for students [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “It is time that every health profession school specifies their criteria for optimal teaching primary care practices and for the training that would optimize their students’ experienc…
Medical training and the systematic creation of mental health sufferers
The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted our lives, tilting them into imbalance and oftentimes severing our individual sense of inner peace. The newfound public initiative to combat these paralyzing challenges is welcome, especially to me. I’ve coped with ma…
A death knell for cadavers
If “video killed the radio star” and Zoom squelched the commute, it seems certain that virtual reality and three-dimensional imaging will be the death knell for cadavers. Recently, NBC Nightly News did a story featuring staff members from C…
9 ways international medical graduates can boost their residency match outcomes
International medical school graduates (IMGs) play an integral role in the health care system of the United States and constitute approximately one-quarter of the physician workforce. In 2022, fewer IMGs registered for Match than in 2021, with a match …
Just as medicine is rooted in relationships, so too is good advising
“Well, you may think you want to be a surgeon, now that you’re young and think you can do it all, but that will change — once children are in the picture. You’ll see how hard it is to leave them and wish you could be with them a…
Who gets to go to medical school?
I knew I wanted to be a doctor when I was seven years old. I excelled in school, attended a good college, scored well on the MCAT, and was accepted into medical school just as I always knew I would be. It was only as I progressed in my career as a phys…
Putting on the mask of professionalism causes burnout
In medical school, we are not just taught the scientific information that doctors should know, we are also taught how doctors should look and behave. I remember being shown a video on “professionalism” during our first day of orientation. I…
