By completing eight weeks of surgery followed by four weeks of family medicine, I was able to immerse myself into two very different fields of medicine back-to-back and see what I gravitate towards more. On the surface, surgery and family medicine are complete polar opposites of the medical spectrum. Yet, the two specialties do share […]
Physicians and Technology
I get to class and look over my lecture slides for the day. Aside from the content, it’s the same as usual – outdated fonts, unorganized layout, blurry images. I look up, and the professor is struggling to hook up his computer to the projector, again. I sigh and consider the same question I have […]
The Untraditional Route to Residency
It is always thought that to become a physician, you finish high school, earn an excellent SAT score, go to college, earn a phenomenal GPA and MCAT score, attend medical school, graduate medical school, then get into a residency program for the specialty of your choice. This whole process takes almost three decades of someone’s […]
