Blog Post Focus This blog post will focus on how to get to shadow a physician. Shadowing a physician is very helpful for determining if you want to go to medical school and gives some sense of what sort of doctor you want to be. Introduction – A Valuable Opportunity Shadowing a physician is a […]
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Blog Post Focus: Permission to Nap and Rest This post will discuss the habit of napping as an undergraduate student. This is directed toward the more Type A perfectionists and workaholic students who feel compelled to always work and never stop. For them: yes, it is okay to nap. It is good to rest. You
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Blog Post Focus – Thinking Ahead: Accepted but Hate the Experience? This prospective medical student post is mainly to explore the idea of what you would do were you accepted to medical school and found that you intensely disliked it. Medical school is a very challenging and stressful time preparing for a very challenging and stressful
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Blog Post Focus: For Those Not Accepted to Medical School This post will discuss options for the applicant who is denied acceptance to medical school. This may feel devastating–another challenge to overcome. Perhaps a sense of having wasted time pursuing this or feeling behind. Yet, it may be a good thing. This may be the
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Blog Post Focus This blog post focuses on pros and cons of living with a friend during residency. I explore some of my personal experience, which was mostly positive. Depending on where one matches it may or may not be possible to live with a friend. For those who matched to a location near a
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Blog Post Focus: Pros and Cons of Living with Parents/Family as a Resident This blog post will discuss pros and cons of living with parents as a resident. Depending on where a resident matches it may or may not be possible. Depending on one’s relationship with parents it may or may not be a good
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Blog Post Focus This blog post will discuss the idea of geoarbitrage for residents. The cost of living varies dramatically in different regions and even can vary significantly in a local area. Residents are very limited in their ability to geoarbitrage, but can awareness may enable improved finances all the same. Personal story—Living In Two
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Blog Post Focus — Budgeting as a Resident Adds Value This blog post will discuss budgeting in residency. It is not fun for everyone, but it is valuable. It is a way to apportion your money to things of value and to avoid waste. This helps one to avoid wasting money on what is not
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Blog Post Focus – Life Balance in Medical School This blog post will discuss thoughts on life balance in medical school. It can be very challenging, but there are ways to improve life balance. If interested, checkout the similar past post for life balance in undergraduate education. Remember, others have made it through and so
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Blog Post Focus: Resources I Used for Determining a Medical Specialty This blog post will discuss some resources that can be utilized for determining a medical specialty. It will start with some of my story and then explore the resources I utilized. The process was different than I expected–medical school started with two pre-clinical years
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