News and Study Tips for Medical Students

Recently New York University’s decision to offer free medical tuition to all of its medical students went viral. Covering up to $55,018 of fees a year, this scholarship applies not just to incoming medical students, but to existing students as well, many of whom will have their loans refunded. This is exciting news for NYU …

As the US heads inexorably towards a doctor shortage of catastrophic proportions, the last thing the country can afford is for experienced and established physicians to quit their jobs early. However, NBC News have reported that this is exactly what is happening. Limited residencies, increased desirability of competing jobs, and suffocating bureaucracy have combined to …

  Sometimes, studying medicine can feel like you’re merely a living sponge, soaking up information that is already well established and known. Textbooks are a good metaphor – heavy, often dated tomes that present facts which appear permanent and never changing. Sure, we haven’t yet cured cancer or the common cold, but for the most …

Early in May 2018, CBS News told the story of Deanna Recktenwald. Deanna lived the life of a healthy teenage girl. Being a passionate athlete, she used her Apple Watch to track her heartbeat while she played sports. The function ran in the background while she was at home, but naturally she seldom felt the …

We get it: medical school is hard. You have so much to learn in such a short time, and the pressure to pass exams and stay ahead of your classmates can be overwhelming Medical students suffer from statistically staggering rates of depression. This sucks. The world needs more doctors, and we strongly believe that becoming …