During Christmas holidays, many medical students, interns, and residents will not be celebrating the holidays with their families. Instead, they will be on call, or night shifts, or just long schedules, taking care of patients.For life and death, sickness and health, do not take holidays, and nor should our compassion for taking care of those who are in trying times. I recall working last year on Christmas Eve at ...
Scrub, MD
Why doctors should pursue another degree
Becoming a doctor is a long and arduous process. Between taking pre-med courses, taking the MCAT, applying to medical schools, matriculating, then taking test after test after test until you take the big one (USMLE Step 1) before which you did questions all day long for weeks from a good USMLE question bank ...
Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle, or the Nook for medical students
The e-reader battles are clearly heating up, with the Apple iPad, the aggressive marketing of the Kindle
Will medical school as we know it exist in a decade?
A century ago in the U.S., the American Medical Association (AMA) created the Council of Medical Education (CME) to evaluate the standard of medical education.In 1908, the committee recruited the Carnegie Foundation to survey the 155 medical schools operating at the time in order to see whether they met the standard of medical education set by the CME. The Carnegie Foundation in turn asked Abraham Flexner, a professional educator, to ...
