After I finished the surgery rotation, I began the psychiatry rotation. What a difference! They are literally night and day from each other, or at least in my opinion. Truth be told, I didn’t think I would love my psychiatry rotation as much as I did. Every attending and resident I came across was so […]
Now that I have matched I would like to discuss what attracted me to Northwestern as one of my top choices for residency. Northwestern first impressed me not in scheduling an interview but canceling one. One of the unique challenges of the virtual application season was the occasional surprise interview invitation. Having scheduled my initial […]
The open air was electric with anticipation. My entire med school class had set up camping chairs around a stage erected in the husk of an old drive-in movie theater and each family huddled around their medical student as they frantically refreshed their emails. Up on stage, one of our medical school Deans was extemporizing […]
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This post is mainly for my M1s, but it can totally be helpful to any M2-M4s reading! It’s very easy to get ~lost in the sauce~ in medical school, and by that I mean the load of information coming at you each and every day! I get it — it’s a lot! It’s like nothing […]
Since I am fresh out of college, I have some quick tips that I want to share with y’all about getting ready to apply for medical school. Tip #1: Get you know your professors. These are the people who will write you a letter of recommendation. It is good to get to know them so […]
My medical school tenure was bookended by news of loss. In the early days, when I spent my time in a lecture hall, I listened to somber faculty announce that a resident had died by suicide. I remember sitting near the back of the room because I had come in late, and while the administration’s […]
Now that us fourth-years are matched and many have completed their medical school rotations, we are entirely free! I finished my last elective last week, and have a mixture of feelings – triumph, joy, pride, excitement, and nervousness. Triumph and joy at completing medical school, pride for matching into my number one choice for residency, […]
I have witnessed numerous encounters where physicians take into account the cognitive load theory and humans’ finite capacity to process. In the outpatient setting, several times a day the physician I was working with would pull up Google to search up images to show patients what exactly was going on with their condition, what certain […]
Fourth-Year, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
An avid lover of the intellect and inter-specialty collaboration associated with medicine, Alex is applying for Internal Medicine residency programs.
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