7a.m. Right on the dot, my alarm blares. I groan as I slowly crawl out of bed, dreading another full day of studying. Since I started medical school, each day has consisted of space-barring through flashcards, watching lectures and reading PowerPoints in an endless cycle. Each minute spent doing something other than studying feels like … Read More
Third year is an exciting turning point in medical school. After two years of learning the information necessary to pass classes and the first COMLEX exam, it is time to apply all that knowledge and skills in clerkship. However, when a pandemic threw a curveball to medical education, the osteopathic medical students in the Class … Read More
Here’s a fun fact: according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (you remember dictionaries, right?), the term “go-bag” first appeared in 1991. I had already been in practice for two years then. Some of you weren’t born yet. The aforementioned dictionary defines it as: “a bag packed with survival supplies and kept ready for use in case … Read More
On a warm Wednesday afternoon, I was driving back home from my pediatric clerkship and decided to swing by the store to pick up ingredients for my new favorite recipe: mixing a hot chili bean sauce with string beans over rice. While I was waiting to check out, an old friend called and we got … Read More
When Wes Ely, MD, started as a resident headed for a career in critical care medicine, he encountered one of his first intensive care unit (ICU) patients who survived her near-death experience, but was never the same person again. She could barely move, and her cognitive abilities were greatly diminished.
Brittany Cuff, DO, just began her seven-year research-integrated general surgery residency program at Penn State with her sights set on a career in surgical oncology. An ambitious and well-accomplished person with a determined attitude, she is the only DO in her categorical class this year. In this edited interview, Dr. Cuff shares information about research-integrated … Read More
“Internal medicine” (IM) comes from the German term Innere Medizin, meaning that early internal medicine doctors were trained to focus on and treat diseases that originated “from within” the body, utilizing laboratory diagnosis in addition to physical and clinical examination.
It’s hard to remember the world without social media. This innovative tool meant to help you keep in contact with family and friends has evolved into many other uses that we depend on daily. Many industries have become dependent on using social media platforms.
Robert S. Juhasz, DO, 2014-2015 AOA president and emeritus staff at Cleveland Clinic South Point Hospital, delivered this year’s A.T. Still Memorial Lecture at the AOA’s House of Delegates meeting in July. Dr. Juhasz is currently a member of the AOA’s presidential advisory committee and has been on the ACGME board of directors since 2017.