One of the best pieces of advice that I ever received was, “If you’re going in to medicine for the money, you are making the wrong decision.” Throughout my experience as a medical student and in to residency, I have…
A fundamental crux to medical education during the preclinical curriculum is the oft held misconception that basic sciences education is largely irrelevant to clinical practice. Drifting back to my first year of medical school, I remember frustratingly shuffling through stacks…
At this point in your career, you’ve likely worked with someone who has obtained an MBA during or after completing their medical education. As previously detailed in an issue of The Atlantic, the MD/MBA is one of the fastest-growing degree…
One of the things that frustrates me the most is when I hear a fellow resident talk about how they try to avoid teaching the medical students—either because they don’t enjoy it or don’t feel like they are good enough…
There’s a big difference from being a highly motivated medical student who is eager to learn and hoping to perform well on exams and being an overly competitive gunner who bullies their peers or shows them up at every turn.…
For many, one of the biggest challenges of the dedicated study period for the USMLE (or COMLEX) is the isolation inherent to such an intensive 4-6 week block of studying. Within a few weeks, many students find themselves going stir…
One of the biggest weaknesses of USMLE review courses is that many students finish the program with no idea of what to do next. Very few students complete their USMLE immediately after their review course, and I have seen far…
Let’s face it: The most difficult thing about USMLE Step 3 is actually finding the time to study for it in the midst of your busy clinical rotations. So with that in mind, it is more important than ever that…
Around this time every year our inboxes become flooded with emails from anxious students who have just taken their first NBME for Step 1. Very few people attain the score they were expecting or hoping for on their first NBME, and…
There’s one thing that I’ve seen far too often as a tutor: Very dedicated, hard working students failing to break into the 230s on Step 1 not because of a lack of effort or ability, but because of a poor…