Medscape Blogs - Education & Training

• What It's Like as a Resident Taking the Night Watch The night shift for a trainee is about figuring it out on your own or praying for the sun to rise.
  Medscape Blogs, December 07, 2022
• Staying Healthy During Step 1 A med student offers ways to prioritize your health as you study for the Step 1 exam.
  Medscape Blogs, November 17, 2022
• Benefits of Early Clinical Exposure Why medical schools are increasingly encouraging early clinical exposure.
  Medscape Blogs, October 27, 2022
• Tips for Becoming a Successful Researcher as a Medical Student Are you struggling with research as a medical student and unsure about what you are doing wrong? Here are some pointers to make your experience more effective.
  Medscape Blogs, September 22, 2022
• Student Involvement in Medical School Admissions of a New Class Medical students often play a central role in admissions. This responsibility can greatly benefit institutions, students, and applicants alike and should be expanded to improve medical education.
  Medscape Blogs, September 20, 2022
• Disparities in Monkeypox Show Missed Opportunities Monkeypox cases continue to increase across the country, and there remains great uncertainty about the future of this new public health crisis. Lessons from COVID could have prevented this crisis.
  Medscape Blogs, August 31, 2022
• Issues with the New Step 1 Exam: Pass/Fail Scoring Is Not the Answer Did you think that a pass/fail Step 1 exam would be the answer to medical student mental health?
  Medscape Blogs, August 23, 2022
• Starting Intern Year: A Summer Like Never Before For new residents, the first hot day of the year means school isn't getting out, but rather, just getting started.
  Medscape Blogs, August 18, 2022
• What Are Your Weaknesses? The benefits of treating ourselves less like physicians and more like patients.
  Medscape Blogs, July 20, 2022
• Another Public Health Crisis Originating From Gun Violence Mass shootings have become increasingly common in American society, taking countless lives and scarring communities. Mental health is another casualty of this public health epidemic.
  Medscape Blogs, June 27, 2022
• What Your Personal Statement Doesn't Say About You An emergency medicine resident pays homage to the hardest part of your ERAS application.
  Medscape Blogs, June 21, 2022
• What COVID Showed Us About Medical Student Finances The pandemic has affected nearly everyone's personal finances, with the impact on medical students having the potential to exacerbate existing healthcare disparities for society at large.
  Medscape Blogs, June 03, 2022
• How to (Not) Say Goodbye Graduating medical school is less like turning over a new leaf and more like uprooting the whole tree and planting it on its head.
  Medscape Blogs, June 01, 2022
• Unintentional Lessons of Third-Year Clinical Rotations Between delivering babies, running codes, and managing diabetes, there is a lot to learn from clinical rotations that I know will contribute to my future role as a resident physician.
  Medscape Blogs, May 20, 2022
• Letter to My Younger (MS-1) Self What if you opened a letter from yourself at the start of med school? From what I've learned about medicine and personal growth in the past 4 years, this is what I would say to my younger self.
  Medscape Blogs, May 06, 2022
• TV Doctors: I'd Like to Have a Word With You Hollywood needs to hold health professionals to higher standards.
  Medscape Blogs, May 05, 2022
• Health Quality: Protecting Patients and Clinicians From Medical Errors Medical errors take thousands of lives annually while imposing exorbitant economic costs. Designing more effective and human-centered approaches can improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
  Medscape Blogs, April 20, 2022
• 3 Novels You Must Read (For Fun) Before Graduating Medical School Reading for fun isn’t often on the top of our to-do lists as medical students. But with more free time, I’ve found a few medical novels that offered insights into medicine and patient care.
  Medscape Blogs, April 15, 2022
• What We Get Wrong About Match Day How can we celebrate happily matched graduates while still consoling others?
  Medscape Blogs, April 13, 2022
• SOAP: What to Expect and How to Survive My experience with Not Matching and an outline of what the newest SOAP timeline may look like in the future.
  Medscape Blogs, April 08, 2022