By: Danielle Purtell Medical school admissions committees are swamped with qualified applicants. Many students apply with the same highly competitive MCAT scores and GPAs. Trying to get noticed by admissions committees can feel even more daunting if you’re a non-traditional applicant. If you took a gap year (or two, or three…), are changing careers, or had an…

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, med school applicants and enrollments improved at a record pace in 2014. This means more competition for you as a potential med school applicant. With this in mind, you’re going to need to dazzle admissions if you’re going to be accepted to the program of your choice. One…

By: Ann Freeman Cool, Ph.D. Presented by:  AMSA Professionalism & Ethics Committee I still remember the look on the young physician’s face when I invited him to talk about the ethical issues he faced in caring for his patients.  He explained: “Nothing in medical school prepared me for some of the decisions I have to…

“The United States loses the equivalent of one small medical school or a large medical school class to suicide each year.”1 Fellow medical and pre-medical students, this is a call to action to stand together to help change the culture of education in our schools and that of our future workplace environments, to remove the…

Residency interview questions and prep What’s it like to interview for a residency position in neurosurgery? How does it compare to interviewing in other specialties? In this episode, medical students share their experiences and questions, including tackling rumors about the neurosurgery interview process.   If you have comments about this episode or would like to…

Two summers ago I studied abroad in Germany and Austria to learn about the history of medicine in Europe through a Texas A&M University faculty-led program. While in Germany, I was surprised to learn that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices seem to be in much wider use across its population than I had expected….