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Residency interview season is nearly upon us. Interviews are the final step in the process of fourth-year medical students securing a residency position. As such, interviews play a crucial role in the residency selection process for both residency programs and fourth-year medical students alike.
The past two years have felt like a fever dream. Only eight months ago, while I was a fourth-year medical student on an infectious disease rotation, the Omicron variant of COVID was raging throughout the United States. I remember feeling dejected at the time, as if there was no end in sight. Shockingly, just over … Read More
There is quite a lot of confusion around the specialty of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (NMM/OMM). As faculty at an osteopathic medical school in the department of NMM/OMM, one of the questions I get often from our medical students is how to pursue NMM/OMM as a specialty. In a similar vein, many of … Read More
The following list of recently deceased osteopathic physicians includes links to obituaries and online memorials if they’re available. Readers can notify the AOA of their deceased colleagues by sending an email to [email protected]. View a list of past In Memoriam columns here.
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.