And, in the words of Oprah…it is done!

Even though it was only the second week of the Infectious Disease sequence, people were already beginning to get a little tired of the routine. Each morning started at 8am with 2 ½ hours of lecture...

For many, Friday the 13th is a much-dreaded occasion. For the University of Michigan Medical School Class of 2011, however, this day was perhaps the most highly anticipated date of the last 4 years. F...

It's hard to believe that the first real week of M3 year is finished. I've already learned an incredible amount, particularly about how to be assertive, and the particular conditions under which I a...

Hello all and hello spring! This past weekend, the M1 class had the opportunity to say goodbye to something really special:

The day has finally arrived. After finishing my dissertation in March, April flew by. I finished up paperwork, did some revisions, and went on vacation, returning home just in time for the start of ...

Greetings from M3 year (almost)! I write this during a break of our M3 orientation, which has consisted of three days filled with various activities geared toward preparing us for our entry into the c...

This is what my e-mail said this morning after my post-defense meeting at the graduate school to review the formatting of my dissertation, turn in the final approval document, and submit my disserta...

Couple things:

Wow.  So M2 year came and went.  And I certainly enjoyed the relaxing 36 hours of vacation before Day #1 of the STEP 1 boards study period began.  A lot has happened in the past 3 days since...

The Smoker has come and gone, which means another academic year is coming swiftly to its close.  M1s continue on the marathon journey that is their first year, M2s start board studying in a week, M...

Hi everyone! I promised myself that I was not going to fall into the habit of having to start each blog entry with something akin to "Sorry it's been so long since my last post!" and yet after a month...

Shortly after I heard about Watson the super computer's debut on Jeopardy, I was talking on the bus with Abe and he asked what I thought about Watson's next big challenge: medical diagnosis. I apprec...