Time: 7am Location: Labor and Delivery Floor Attire: Scrubs and Danskos Occassion: First day on OB/GYN Rotation

5:15am, my alarm goes off. It's the beginning of a new day. My M3 clerkships are beginning as well; I'm in the middle of my first rotation: pediatrics.* Today, my inpatient team is on "early call,"...

Happy New Year! It's 2017, and the M2s are quickly wrapping up with our preclinical curriculum. In six weeks, we will bid goodbye to the lecture halls and anatomy labs for good, don our short white co...

Anatomy class is an irreplaceable and unique learning experience during our M1 year; a tangible trip through the human body that allows us to explore and learn without fear of causing harm. Without an...

Med students and residents with Dr. Howell at the concert.

It's summer for the new M2s!! Actually, this is old news. We took our last exam on May 15th and so we have enjoyed almost six weeks of break. Since we start class again on August 1st, we are almost ex...

Wow! It has been a while since I last posted. If there is one thing I know for sure about medical school, it's that it makes time disappear. One day it's August and you're trying on your white coat fo...

Happy Halloween! Living up to tradition, Phi Rho (our medical student co-ed fraternity) hosted a Halloween bash and I was very impressed with my classmates' costumes. As an ode to Dr. D'Alecy, the hea...

Close to two months of my first year of medical school have passed, and I finally feel as though I am getting my feet under me. UMMS has certainly been a whirlwind so far! Here's a quick introduction ...