Student Corner

Applying to residency can be an arduous process, both emotionally and financially. To best manage this complex endeavor, it is important to be systematic and thoughtful.

For many medical students, choosing a specialty is one of the most challenging aspects of medical school. Although many medical schools are expanding third-year exposure to different specialties to include more time in clinical rotations and a wider variety of experiences, it remains a relatively short amount of time and exposure from which to base a career choice.

An estimated 73% of medical students graduate with debt. The average cost of attending medical school is upwards of $250,000, and the average medical student graduates with debt approaching $200,000. Although physicians are still...

A Day in the Life is a podcast for medical students, by medical students, in which attendings are asked about their training and daily life. In this episode of A Day in the Life, Heena Ahmed interviews Dr. Rita Charon M.D. PhD, a professor of medicine and the founder of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.

The debate about changing the scoring system for the USMLE Step 1 exam is both a manifestation of dysfunction in the medical education pathway and an opportunity to address this dysfunction.

Training practitioners with better skills in teamwork and communication is thought to be essential for preventing medical errors, and it may help reduce health inequities and reverse rising costs by providing patients with the amount and type of expertise they need.

Medical schools have been moving away from lecture-based courses. Questions remain, however, regarding what content students must learn, how that learning is best done, and what else is required for trainees to become lifelong learners and adaptable practitioners.

I was entering my third year of medical school when my brother’s friend called me, saying “I think your brother has schizophrenia.” I packed my suitcase and headed home. The plan was to get him a psychiatry referral and start him on medications. Easy, right?

A medical student with type 1 diabetes has to develop workarounds for her surgical rotation, choose her specialty carefully…and decide whether, when, and how to disclose her condition to her educators and to patients.

Despite having conducted numerous speculum exams, the medical student had yet to submit to her own first pelvic exam. In college, she had been sexually assaulted in her dorm room, and the idea of the exam brought up ferocious anxiety, metallic bile, fear, and refusal.