As a Caribbean Medical Student, I often find myself correcting and educating others, both in-person and online, on the misconceptions they have regarding Caribbean medical schools. The most often misconceptions I hear are: “Most Caribbean students never get a residency position.” The first time residency match rate for students attending my medical school in the […]
Pathology Podcasting Goes Viral
2020 has been many things to many people but for me, one of the unquestionable positives to come from the past 8 months has been the emergence of what seems like a Cambrian Explosion in pathology podcasting. I would like to describe a few of the wonderful programs which have allowed pathology to dominate my […]
Learning the Unwritten Rules of Medicine
Probably for any field, there are unwritten rules. Things you cannot predict. Practices not specified on a website, or in a document. Why do some students seem to excel without angst, while others appear to be swimming upstream? One of the things I’ve learned as a medical student on rotations is that there are unwritten […]