News and Study Tips for Medical Students

An aging population globally has left countries from the USA to China desperately short of medical professionals. As older doctors retire and too few young people enter medical school, the situation gets worse every year. TechCrunch, citing a recent study by the American Association of Medical Colleges, reports that by 2025 the US could be …

Lasse Hodne is a fifth year medical student at Poznan University of Medical Sciences. He mentors younger students, and is Poznan spokesperson for the Norwegian Medical Association (NMA). He’s only 23, but in barely one year he’ll be a doctor. The team from QUPI sat down with Lasse for a chat about what he wishes …

From the moment you enter medical school, you look forward to the day that you get your first stethoscope. Like a wand to a wizard, the stethoscope is the symbol that you have arrived, and that you can finally start using your hard-earned skills in the real world. Your first stethoscope is an important decision; …

Hi, First, THANK YOU for your support of Qupi. Because of you, we’re closer than ever to reaching our goal of creating the best tool to help medical students become doctors. The bad news is our Kickstarter campaign didn’t reach its target on the first round. But there’s a silver lining: thanks to the enthusiastic …

The United States Medical Licensing Examination, commonly referred to as the USMLE, is perhaps the most important stage of your medical education. It’s also extremely difficult, and food good reason. Passing it means you’re on your way to being a doctor, with responsibility over life or death decisions. Despite its well-known difficulty, you do not need to …