Failing a Medical School Exam

We had our first information night on clerkship a few days ago, and if you weren’t thinking about clerkship…

Knock on Wood

“Have you ever been sick before?”, my research supervisor asked. We were discussing patients involved in our study, and I had not…

1/4 Life Crisis Motivational Speech

This semester has been kind of a shit show. Not because of school, but because of me. I think…

Meditations on Resilience, Self-Care, and Clerkship

The Memoirs of Neville Longbottom, 1/2MD

Were you able to maintain your relationships over the school year? How have they…

#Views

How has this semester/year been for you? Was it what you expected? How was it different?

The Long-winded Boggart

School was more-or-less manageable, almost surprisingly so. I’ve really felt a big shift in my level of giving-a-crap…

Nervous wreck

I’m a nervous wreck to go back. I have to confess: I know we had 4 months but I barely studied anything at all. I didn’t do research…

Breathing

Clerkship prior to the pandemic in many ways made me feel like a circus monkey…

Clear Chameleon

Some level of madness I always seem to bring myself to when trying to understand my journey through medical school — as though it…