One of the exams medical students consistently dread is the surgery shelf exam. Why is the surgery shelf so challenging? For a couple reasons: you spend so many hours in the operating room that you don’t have any time to…
MST Tutors Kevin Wang and Jeffrey Abrams contributed to this article. The question of when to take the MCAT creates anxiety and worry for almost every pre-med student. Choosing your MCAT test date is a very personal decision, and your…
Preparing for the USMLE Step 2 CS can be frustrating. You know it’s graded pass/fail and there’s a high pass rate, so you don’t want to spend too much time studying and take too much time away from other pursuits.…
MST Tutors Nick Lunig and Lauryn Falcone contributed to this article. The first day of school is always a little nerve-wracking, but the first day of med school is on a whole new level. Most students will work harder than…
Every year, thousands of medical students take the Clinical Skills (CS) portion of the USMLE Step 2 examination series, which is a pass/fail exam. Unfortunately, for international and foreign medical graduates (IMGs & FMGs) desiring a residency position in the…
We have been running a USMLE-style question breakdown webinar series this summer, and were getting requests to bring back another installment this month. Our friends at TrueLearn rose to the occasion to provide us with USMLE Step 1-style questions from…
This post was written by Dr. Brian Radvansky and Michael Stephens. It is with great pleasure and mild sorrow that we give to you the final installment of the Know Thy Shelf series, covering the much beloved OB/GYN shelf exam.…
If you’re getting ready to apply to residency this year, or you’re planning ahead for next year, Dr. Deep Bhatt has distilled down some of our top recommendations for how to successfully put together your ERAS application. He talks you…
Do I need to love the medical science or the work when I pick a specialty? Which matters more?
Being a medical student is one of the most anxious times of your life, and not without good reason. Medical school is stressful, from the rigor of the material to the constant testing to the frustrations of grades to residency…