After watching celebrity and influencer “what’s in my bag?” videos, I thought it would be fun to put my own twist on this trend. I often have students ask me what are some essential items that I like to keep in my whitecoat for rotations, so here I have come up with a list of […]
Should You Attend a Caribbean Medical School?
Why attend a Caribbean medical school? Caribbean medical schools overall are known to be more accepting of students from the United States, Canada, and other countries who wish to one day work in the US as a physician. Compared to US medical schools, they are much more lenient in regards to their minimum accepted MCAT […]
Autopsy Rotations: Returning to My First Patient
In medical school, we are often told upon entering the cadaver lab that the bodies in front of us should be treated as our first patients. For most of my colleagues, this is largely rhetorical as while we should obviously respect our cadavers—most physicians hope to never see a patient in the morgue again. As […]