While an echocardiogram (ECG) looks like a not-so-impressive barrage of waves on paper, it allows a cardiologist to gain a tremendous deal of insight about a patient's heart. The shape of certain waves and the...

After two months of planning and trying to analyze every conceivable scenario with a "what could go wrong" mentality, I realized the product of my paranoia Friday evening at the class of 2014's white...

Today was my first preceptorship session in PPS-3 with an infectious disease specialist. Our group of three students saw patients in the veterans affairs hospital with all sorts of conditions, and for today's session,...

I'm extremely excited to be part of a group of MS2s spearheading a new kind of organization at Baylor Med - Surgical Corps. While I can go on and on about why this is...

Baylor Med's curriculum basically entails students covering the human body in its "normal state" during the first year and then going back through the organ systems' pathological states in the six months of pre-clinicals...

While most of my classmates traveled abroad for recreation and/or participating in something "medically related", I had a far less eventful (but successful) summer break. At the end of block 6, I had set two...