News and Study Tips for Medical Students

In 2015, a user on the website Quora.com asked the question: How can I become a doctor online? The answers she received were simple: you can’t. A medical student named Shikha Sharma wrote the answer with the highest number of upvotes. He begins: “Can you be a driver by reading “how to drive” articles and …

Doctors don’t just care for a patient’s symptoms. They provide comfort and reassurance. Patients want smart, competent doctors, but they also want happy doctors, real people who they can feel a connection to. And yet doctors and medical students suffer from staggeringly high rates of depression. The problem begins in medical school, where the high …

Got plans in March? We’re excited and proud to announce that longtime QUPI friend Dr. Kohei Yamada will be representing us at the Royal Medical Society National Student Conference in Edinburgh! The theme of the conference is mental health.  You may know that medical students and healthcare professionals are disproportionately affected by mental health issues …

Recent BBC footage from the Royal Blackburn Hospital shows patients on trolleys clogging corridors, busy staff wiping sweat from their foreheads, and grateful patients hugging exhausted nurses and doctors. One man said he’d been “queueing for five hours. It’s not what you expect from a country like ours, is it?” A doctor admitted he hadn’t …

QUPI is an ambitious startup that plans to change the future of medical education. Their online platform contains 10,000 practice questions which medical students around the world use to prepare for their exams. They’re working on a mobile app and a series of international university visits to help take QUPI to the next level. The …