If you had to reduce the function of your cardiovascular system to one goal, how would you describe it? What is the primary purpose of the heart and blood and vasculature? At the center of it all is the need…
Accruing ERAS letters of recommendation is one of the greatest sources of stress for students during residency application season. In the dozens of students I’ve coached through their ERAS residency applications, I’d estimate that over 80 percent of them saw…
Update 09/01/20: Here is our full recording of our Med School Admissions Summit — and for more videos, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Since COVID emerged, we’ve been hearing from students and parents with questions about the impact…
It was time to sign out, but I was nowhere to be found. There I was, stuck in room 782, trying to figure out why Mr. Nelson was only satting 86%. Of course, these problems always present themselves when it’s…
I remember the moment where it struck me. I was looking out the window of my Greyhound bus, on my way from Sydney to Melbourne. Just 2 months prior, I had bought a one-way ticket to Australia on a working…
It was proceeding like any other case. Sure, it was billed to be “technically difficult,” but that didn’t mean too much more to us, the anesthesia team, other than to prepare for “surgical difficulties” along the way. My team is…
If you’ve learned anything up to this point in medicine, it’s likely that the field has strong foundations in dogma and tradition. Routinely, medical school consisted of two years of basic science classroom work followed by two years of clinical…
Ah, the MCAT. You just need to do well on this test before the rest of your life is pure gravy. Even college finals feel like they pale in comparison to the magnitude of this test. You put in the…
How many times have you heard someone define himself as a bad test taker? Or worse yet, have you adopted this mentality as your own? In this post, we are going to talk about why this belief, like any, is…
By the time you are reading this, I hope that we are over and done with the COVID-19 surge. And I hope that it’s the only one that we will experience. However, if history is any guide, it would be…