• Welcome

    Welcome to iReason. I am an M3 student in the United States. As an M1 student, I started this blog as an information resource pertaining to medial school.

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

Things I wish I knew before starting medical school

1. Rankings don’t really matter unless you’re very serious about research 2. The need to apply earlier than I did (my AMCAS was submitted in August) 3. How expensive the application process would be (cost me close to $3G) 4. How time-consuming the process is (I could have taken an lighter course-load that semester) 5. … Read more

Those darn pre-med requirements – are they really necessary?

When I was in college, I could never understand why I needed to know where to draw the little arrows and dots for the Baeyer-Villiger reaction mechanism in organic chemistry, or why I would ever need to know circuits or hydrostatic pressure from physics.  After all, I wanted to practice medicine one day, and I … Read more

Is research important?

Many of you wonder if research is important in applying to medical school.  A lot of people will tell you YES, it is important, while others will tell you that you should only conduct research if you find it interesting. Below is my experience and advice regarding research and its importance. I was a research … Read more

Tips for the Medical School Application Process

Applying to medical school is, in my opinion, like a full-time job.  It requires massive organization, meeting your own deadlines (crafted after the actual deadlines), and a lot of editing/writing skills.  I have compiled a list of a few things that I found useful while I applied. Things I found useful doing: 1. Excel Spreadsheet. … 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.

iReason Rx: First Dose

Chief Complaint:   Your friend is stressed-out & sleep deprived. Upon further examination:   So, you have a medical student friend who wants a study partner, and they approach you because they lack the motivation to study by themselves.  You invite your friend to the library, and what happens? Your friend is laughing at some YouTube video, … Read more

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

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