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...

Well, the weather finally decided it was time to act like January. After a remarkably warm December (seriously, coats weren't necessary some days over the winter holidays), the new term has begun and ...

The last two months of M3 year have flown by! From the end of November until break started in mid-December, I rotated on inpatient GenMed at the U. Coordinating care was much easier at the U than at t...

Last I wrote I was preparing for my first OR adventure. I'm proud to say I (obviously) survived and, what's more, didn't do anything exceedingly embarrassing! It went far better than I possibly could ...

Happy New Year! The end of each year and the beginning of the next always causes me to become a bit sentimental. Somehow, this rather arbitrary marker always makes me stop and think about where I am a...

Yesterday, I fell asleep to the sound of exploding fireworks from neighbors' lawns.  It felt unbelievably good to be back home in Georgia with my family.  One of the neighbors placed firecracker...

Hi Everyone! It's finals week for the non-medical school campus - I am currently in between my two final exams (just finished my Chinese exam) and will then be free for the holidays! I'm not going far...

Happy Thanksgiving and end of November! I feel like I blinked and almost two months have passed. They have been a very busy two months, where we wrapped up renal, had two Clinical Foundations of Medic...

My posts always seem to coincide with the end of a sequence: funny coincidence, that. We just finished our neuro sequence and it was EPIC. The one disease process we didn't discuss is exactly what hap...

Today, we [M1s] attended a panel with four incredible women who told their stories of being patients or caregivers. In the hospital, at first glance, what we may see is an ill woman wearing an uncomfo...

Now that the holidays are approaching, I begin to look ahead to what the next term will bring. In addition to my classwork (which will consist of a bioinformatics programming class and second-semester...

Medical school is full of "firsts." First organ-based sequence (cardio/respiratory) – check! First time taking a history for a standardized patient – check. And now, first health policy conf...

Hi everyone! I'm Maya, an M1 from Troy, Michigan. I went to Stanford University for undergrad and studied Human Biology with a concentration in Health and Human Performance. After graduating in June 2...

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...