The Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS ®) opened up the site for submission today at 8am CST. The coming months will hopefully bring many interview invites to all applicants. After all, this is a...

This long weekend was brought to many of us by Labor Day... one of several holidays which I won't have off starting next year. I can't help but think that this year's round of...

Every medical student has an "audition rotation" - the time they spend rotating through their career of choice. Now it's my turn. The career: pediatric anesthesiology. The mentality: kids are awesome. I spent some...

I've been fidgeting with the content of my personal statement (PS) for anesthesiology since summer break, but I finally had a breakthrough. Overnight I saw my practice in the future - seeing patients and...

Per the USMLE website, Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) "uses standardized patients to test medical students and graduates on their ability to gather information from patients, perform physical examinations, and communicate their findings to...

The first week of CV anesthesia was relatively uneventful as many of the surgeons were out-of-town on vacation or attending conferences, but I enjoyed being back in the operating room. On my first day,...

Now that I've completed my surgical ICU experience, I have a renewed sense of how pivotal teamwork is in the clinical setting. Coordination between pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nurses, and physicians was absolutely paramount in...

I'm staring at a crazy patient census to start my second-half of this SICU rotation. 😯 Now that I've become acclimated to how things operate from a logistics standpoint (discharge criteria, admissions, trauma, etc.),...