Everybody in medical school has the same secret. It’s something we never talk about. Something so intensely personal that we can barely even tell our closest friends. It eats at us like a purulent mass—we feel the pressure of it daily and somehow we know that the only way to be free of it is […]
What I Wish I Knew During Board Studying
Spring means showers (and/or snow depending not the region), but it also means that many second-year medical students are getting ready to study for their first set of board examinations. I should add though that many schools have changed their curriculum so that students take their first set of boards and their second set of […]
Why Clinicians Hate Glycolysis
As a second year medical student at an institution that has recently introduced a new curriculum, I have become fascinated with the question of what ought to be taught in medical school. With the roll out of this new curriculum, which focuses on a systems-based approach to learning as well as integrating clinical experiences early […]
