Several pre-meds applying to medical school have asked me whether or not they should apply to combined MD and Master of Public Health (MPH) programs—or at least consider pursuing an MPH in the future. For anyone unfamiliar with my background, I obtained my MPH at Yale during my 3-year gap between college and medical school. […]
I’ve Matched – Now What?
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, […]
Visual Aids in Patient Education
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 […]