Balancing Theory and Clinical Practice

Reading Time: 3 minutes Navigating the Wards AND the Boards as a third-year medical student. Welcome to the Jungle  During medical school, one is constantly bombarded with information and statistics that are often irrelevant by the time graduation rolls around.  This phenomenon is very similar to social media literature in the sense that it seems to be outdated the […]

Trials and Tribulations of Dating Medical Students

Reading Time: 4 minutes This article is based on my personal experiences dating a medical student and what I have witnessed of other couples in similar situations. A few things I learned along the way: Every couple’s experience will be different. Medical school is packed with new daily problems, whether the student is single or has been married for […]

Breaking the Wall With Nurses

Reading Time: 3 minutes Respect and Communication Between Nurses and Physicians Most medical students about to embark on their clinical clerkships are simultaneously excited and mildly terrified. This is for good reason, as rotations are an unfamiliar landscape with an added level of responsibility. Up until this point it has been, in large part, a lot of didactics with patient […]