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Practical advice written by physicians, residents and students — matching, board exams, clerkships, interviews, letters of recommendation, personal statements and staying well while you train.
The first step is relatively easy; decide if you want a medical or a surgical career. My advice to students is that most medical students “like” surgery, but only a small percentage “need surgery to live.” Only these few should apply for a surgical residency. …
Consolidated opinion of Steve Leslie, MD; James Hughes, MD; Jesse Cole, MD; and Nicholas Lorenzo, MD.…
Consensus opinion provided by Dan Mountcastle, MD; Phillip Hynes, MD; and Nick Lorenzo, MD…
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Ask any medical student how to do well on the USMLE® Step 1 or COMLEX® Step 1, and you will get ten different answers. To create a more empirical approach, I interviewed hundreds of neurosurgery and general surgery residency candidates who typically achieve ve…
Consensus opinion provided by Dan Mountcastle, MD; Ali Tariq, MD; and Nick Lorenzo, MD…
The Subject Examinations (Shelf) are available through the NBME® and NBOME® are used by medical schools to measure medical student knowledge across basic science and clinical topics. They usually serve to assess students at the end of a course or clerkship and…
My personal goal since entering medical school was to match for a training position in internal medicine in the United States. As I did just a little above average studying UWorld for USMLE® Step 1, being from Pakistan, I knew I needed to kill USMLE® Step 2 CK…
Let’s face it; you have a lot of studying to do during medical school. During my four years, I can recall going on two dates, three movies, going out to dinner once, and then I burned my short white coat, and it was over. This was replaced by six years of resi…