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

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