It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Kind of. Whether you love them or loathe them, it’s time for interviews. Time to dust off your suit, brighten your smile, and wow every program with your charm. And, in this…
Interview season can be stressful. For one thing, our future is riding on our performance. An amazing interview can be the difference between matching at your dream program and not matching at all. On top of that, you might be…
During training, we want to improve our own capacity to deliver excellent healthcare for patients in need. Our professors and attendings have the same goals for us, and aim to be instrumental in our successes. We here at MST thought…
Whether we are aware of it, or just letting it happen in the background, everyday we are teachers, and we are learners. In the realm of academic medicine, the roles and relationships are obvious. Attendings teach residents, residents teach medical…
“Money isn’t real, George. It doesn’t matter. It only seems like it does.” ~ Fred Jung to George Jung, Blow. This week, my attending was recounting a story of his daughter’s first experience with the tooth fairy. He told her that…
Personal statements are one of the biggest mental sinks on any residency application. Whether it be AMCAS, ERAS, fellowship applications, or even job cover letters, condensing your essence into a single page, using just your words (and none of your…
Medical Research. It keeps our field moving forward, and helps to affirm the confidence that we are making the right clinical decisions. In the end, we practice based on the evidence. And the evidence has to come from somewhere. It…
Sitting down to write a personal statement (PS) can be Hellish. We put a great deal of pressure on ourselves to convey the product of our years of compounding greatness into a single page. We are compelled to show the…
You can feel it in the air. We are in the thick of ERAS season. Opening day was way back on June 6th this year…you’ve started your application, right? Or maybe you were waiting for us to publish this guide…
As a medical student, your life centers around plans, both big and small. Your daily plan is usually pretty simple, and probably looks a lot like this: go to lecture, study, eat, study, work on research/other project, study, leisure-time (maybe),…