For an instructor’s perspective on these study strategies, check out the companion post by Alyssa B. Smith’s sister Dr. Megan A. Sumeracki. By: Alyssa B. Smith, third-year medical student, Chicago Medical School I began at Chicago Medical School believing the notion that my study methods had gotten me into medical school, so they could therefore …
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What Step 1 Means to Me Now
Editor's Note: For more on using USMLE Step 1 scores to screen applicants for residency, see the commentary by Prober et al in the January 2016 issue. By: Jessica G. Fried, MD, PGY-1 Preliminary Medicine Resident, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA I remember the night before I took Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing …
The Unwritten Premed Curriculum: Insights from Physician Shadowing
By: Jennifer Y. Wang, a senior medical student at the Stanford School of Medicine It’s not entirely clear when I decided to affix the dreaded “premed” label upon myself. As a freshman at Stanford University eight years ago, I was also considering the possibilities of becoming a computer scientist or a biomedical researcher or engineer. …
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