Last night expanded my motivation to succeed. Somewhere between reading the *heavily modified* Hippocratic Oath and listening to the upperclassmen speeches, I was once again overcome with a sense of realization - I'm finally...

Yesterday, my anatomy group continued our cadaver dissection by locating the brachial plexus, a particular bundle of nerves situated near the axilla (armpit) which arises from C5-T1 and innervates the entire upper limb. Removing...

Several things have been made painfully obvious to me in my first week of medical school. First of all, it's true - med students probably cover just as much in one week as undergrad...

My gross anatomy group got together yesterday afternoon to dissect the pectoralis major and pectoralis minor muscles of the chest, and did we have one incredible realization! Our cadaver was initially presented to us...

What comes to mind when you think of your "best teacher?" Perhaps the one who had easy tests? Maybe the one who would go out of their way to know each student on an...

Today was my first "real" day of medical school. We had lectures on introductory histology (preparing a sample for microscopy), the cytoskeleton (microtubules, microfilaments, and intermediate filaments), and the anatomy of the shoulder. After lecture,...