First Year of Medical School in Retrospect
Now that I’m officially a second year medical student (MS2), I thought it would be nice to reflect on the things I learned in the first eleven months of this journey.
Tag: advice
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My Advice To Incoming MS1s
A friend of mine in the JAMP program recently got accepted to UT Southwestern and will be matriculating there this fall. We had a great chat in which he admitted his anxiety and sought any advice I had to offer. I’ve been looking for an opportunity to share my singular…
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Medical School – New Persona, Old Annoyances
One of my best friends who I’ve known since elementary just graduated from undergrad and is starting medical school this fall. Over the last four years, his experiences in college can be summed up nothing short of a nightmare. We’ve talked several times about the people he is surrounded by…
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Wear the White Coat
In her last embryology lecture, the pediatric surgeon who has shown us the wonders of development (and things that can go wrong) over the last four blocks concluded her lecture as always – providing useful tips to survive medical school. One of the points she made this past week really…
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Advice from a Dermatology Resident
I recently had the chance to ask a soon-to-be dermatology resident what a laid-back student like myself should expect from medical school, and how I can prepare myself to handle the upcoming rigors. I also expressed my desire to match at a Baylor Med residency program and wondered how influential…