The Objective Standardized Clinical Exam, affectionately known as OSCE to med students across the country, is one of the most unnecessarily terrifying parts of medical school. We all have to take Step 2 CS (Clinical Skills), and OSCEs are used to prepare us for this exam, similarly to how our classroom and rotations prepare us for our […]
Study without Studying: Welcome to Third-Year
Third-year is great because you are out in the hospital, seeing real patients, and you technically aren’t ‘studying’ as much as you did first and second-year. In reality, you probably are studying more. And retaining more. But it definitely is a whole lot less book time. All day long you are seeing patients and seeing […]
Challenges as Opportunities for Growth
Like it was for many of my classmates, our basic neuroanatomy course during my first year of medical school was a dark, dark time. As someone who had never taken a neuroscience course prior to entering medical school, I struggled with understanding the complexities of the human nervous system. The various neural pathways that communicated […]
