Posts tagged med school
10 things I wish I’d known before starting med school
Jul 8th
It’s still a bit weird for me to know that I’m now officially a second-year medical student, but here’s my best shot at some pearls of wisdom! You really have to love medicine. If I offered you $100 million to quit medicine forever, you should be able to say no without looking back. I realize [...]
99% of the people you meet in med school
Jan 25th
A guide to the typical stereotypes you’ll find around in a med school class. This is (mostly) meant to be tongue-in-cheek. 1. gunner: the most notorious of the stereotypes, the gunner is out to get perfect scores on everything, whether it’s final exams, clinics, or random questions in lecture. The gunner is somehow capable of [...]
10 tips for pre-meds at Stanford
Jan 18th
I figured I might as well start with my home ground. I have to say this upfront: I AM BIASED. I’m basing all this on my own experience and that of other pre-meds I knew–so what can you expect? But trust us a bit, we all went through the stuff that you’re going to go [...]
MHIMS: perfectionism
Jan 7th
While commonly touted as a good thing, the notion of perfectionism is, when analyzed, little more than a source of stress, delusions, and a detrimental sense of failure. But wait, cry all the self-help coaches, overachievers, and med students. Perfectionism is good! It drives us to achieve, to surpass our limitations, to be all we [...]