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MCAT 2015: The Wrong Step in the Right Direction
Many future, or current premeds have probably heard about the new MCAT in 2015 by now. If you haven’t, and you’re curious, here’s a link to the PDF document the American Association of Medical...
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5 Simple Tips to Maximize Your Shadowing Experience
If you’re a college student interested in entering any kind of professional field, you will probably end up doing a shadowing gig at one time or another. You can shadow a doctor, lawyer, business...
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5 Reasons Why Social Media is Good for Pre-Meds
After allowing The Biopsy public exposure and starting a Twitter account for it, I learned one important thing – I wish had done so sooner. The digital age of medicine is upon us and shaping a...
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Book Brief: The Health Care Handbook
This is a book every premed, especially those who are interviewing, needs to read right now. The Health Care Handbook, by Elisabeth Askin and Nathan Moore, both medical students at Washington...
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What Premed Major Should I Pick?
Many premeds wonder what they should major in before entering medical school. Molecular biology? Biochemistry? Genetics? The de facto advice is to go major in what you love or what interests you. This...
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Ruminations on Leadership
This post was originally written during Hurricane Sandy, but couldn’t be published due to electric power concerns. Given the current buzz from the AAMC 2012 conference in San Francisco, I couldn’t help...
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Tele-Admissions: Skype As a Screening Tool
You have probably heard of tele-medicine before. It’s basically a way for doctors to attend to patients in remote locations via video conferencing technologies. It certainly isn’t a replacement for...
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Guest Post: Questions to Ask Your Medical School Tour Guides
Today, we have our very first guest post from Ryan Nguyen, a first-year osteopathic medical student at WesternU COMP who blogs at WhiteCoatDO. If you’re interested in guest posting, go ahead and...
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“Premed” in a Digital Age
Sometimes, I ask myself what it means to be a “premed”. One might say that the label connotes a desire to become a physician, as its root, pre-MD, would suggest. We strive to matriculate into medical...
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Uncoupling Institutional Medical Education
I recently came across the Twitter hashtag #FOAMed. Though images of bubble baths came to mind, I did a quick search and found out it actually represents “Free Open Access Medical Education“. Reading...
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