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I don’t know about you, but before starting medical school, I was excited. Having not grown up with a medical background (no one in my immediate or extended family worked in medicine in the U.S.), I gained all of my…
Matriculating into medical school is an exceptional feat, and all who manage it should feel an enormous sense of pride and accomplishment. Once you enter those hallowed halls of preclinical lectures, small group sessions, physical exam essentials, and patient interactions,…
10,000 dollars! 10K is a decent chunk of money, which is the exact amount that was recently announced for student loan forgiveness as part of the Student Debt Relief Plan. A little background, on August 24, 2022, the Department of…
If you’ve made it to an outpatient clinic or elective rotation, that means you’ve probably completed a significant chunk of your inpatient core rotations. Congrats! Outpatient medicine and inpatient medicine can be a night and day difference. Generally, outpatient clinic…
What is a sub-internship? Sub-internships (sub-Is), audition rotations, and acting internships (AIs) are common names for the same thing: a required clinical rotation completed during your last stretch of medical school. Though difficult, the seasoned medical student is expected to…
The following article is an interview between Dr. David Delnegro, an Emergency Medicine Attending, and Anthony DiMeglio, a financial advisor. In this interview, the two discuss financial wellness practices for those pursuing medical education, at each stage from pre-med to…
Ask anyone in medical school, and they’ll tell you that it isn’t the actual content that’s hard. “Then what’s hard?” you might ask. It’s the sheer amount of information that you are expected to retain. Luckily, we have three effective…
Surgery is not for everybody. I can say with certainty that it wasn’t my favorite rotation. Our introduction to surgery was the surgical clerkship director stating that we should only “go into surgery only if you can’t see yourself doing…
Congratulations on making it to clinicals! It’s been a challenging road thus far. You’ve endured hours of lectures, anatomy labs, and the colossal hurdle of Step 1. Now, you have the opportunity to take everything you’ve learned over the past…
So, you’re starting medical school preclinicals. Those were the days! This is one of the periods of training that I look back upon fondly. On the long road of medical training, you rarely have the type of freedom you’ll find…