Is lecture helpful in medical school?
There’s the age-old debate among medical students, whether lecture is useful or a waste of time. Below, I present the major points of both schools of thought, after which I provide my personal experience with the matter. “Lecture is useful” – People who religiously go to lecture do so, because they either find some benefit … Read more
Study Strategies: Gross Anatomy
Organization, Repetition, and 3D-mental spatial views are important for studying Gross Anatomy. In addition, numerous useful study-tools are listed.
Sacrifices
Medical school requires tremendous sacrifice on the part of medical students, their family and friends. Here is a list of potential things that will either directly clash with your study-time, or nicely summarize life during medical school. This post is meant to be partly humorous, and partly true! (in no particular order) 1. Eating becomes … Read more
FMG, but US Citizen…what are my chances?
FMG-US citizens are statistically favored over non-US citizens. (One of my readers brought up a good point (thank you!) regarding this subject a while ago, so I decided to shed some light on this topic.) Now that medical school admissions is becoming really competitive, the recent trend is that pre-medical students apply to the Carribbean … Read more
Foreign M.D. vs. U.S. D.O.
So, you’d rather have a foreign MD than a US DO degree? Welcome to Slaughter House VI. Many pre-medical students who are re-thinking their chances at a US allopathic medical school think that it’s better to have an MD from elsewhere in the world, than have a D.O. from an osteopathic medical school in the … Read more
