EMILY HAUSE Being a pre-medical student is an experience like no other. You’re simultaneously trying to crush your rigorous science classes while volunteering, gaining medical shadowing experience, and cultivating extracurricular interests. You’re basically a superhuman student-volunteer-teammate-friend masquerading as a normal college student. Spotting a pre-med student is easy once you know what to look for. Here are eight […]
Acupuncture and Popularity of Integrative Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices Today
By: Coco Victoria Gomez Tirambulo Happy Wellness Wednesday, everyone! I recently watched a documentary called The Gut: Our Second Brain on Amazon Prime Video. It was released in 2013 and offers an interesting perspective on how our guts dictate many aspects of our daily lives and how we may not even be in control of our […]
Anxiety and Depression: The Risks of Medical School
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), almost 30% of medical students suffer from depression or symptoms of depression. In addition, 1 out of 10 medical students report experiencing suicidal thoughts. That means medical students are five times more susceptible to depression than the general population. Why is that? Is it because […]
Chapter Spotlight: Medical University of Lublin
Learn more about how the AMSA chapter at Medical University of Lublin drew students in to share in building leadership experience with AMSA. Chapter Objective: “Promoting leadership, and friendship in order to share knowledge, ideas and principles that will motivate future generations to become leaders” How did your chapter support this objective? “A few months […]
Leader Spotlight: Chloe Waters
Read about how AMSA’s International Region Director, Region 1 Chloe Waters’ found a community upon which to build at her AMSA Chapter. MS2, Focus: Emergency Medicine Saint James School of Medicine – St. Vincent & the Grenadines When did you join AMSA? March 2016 AMSA Leadership Experience AMSA International Region Director, Region 1: May 2017 SJSM, Saint […]
Making the Grade
On average, the United States loses one physician per day to suicide, and this includes many physicians in training, usually within the first year. The pressure of medical school is extremely tough because of the grueling hours, fierce competition, and huge workload. One of the most stressful aspects of medical school is getting good grades. […]
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By: Rebekah Apple, MA, DHSc and Daniel Gouger, MD First, it was a book. The Handmaid’s Tale didn’t formally introduce a protagonist until the final sentences of the prologue. An unnamed narrator shared personal insight in the next several pages. Soon thereafter, the reader learned names had become obsolete for the women in Margaret Atwood’s […]
3 Steps to Successful Pre-Med Planning
SERRINA NASROLLAHI Is your pre-med career a top priority? Are you wondering how to ensure you’ve made the most of undergrad before the end of your senior year? Do you think you’re on the right track to putting together a stellar med school application? Whatever stage you’re at in college, these questions may come with […]
Suicide is More Common in Medical School Than in Any Other School Setting
Medical school is a time when students are learning to take care of others, but many medical students forget to take care of themselves in the process. With the grueling hours, extreme work, and the pressure to be amazing, it is hard to remember to sleep, eat, and try to relax from time to time. […]
Growing Into the Role of a Physician Leader
By: Christine Comizio “You are your own enemy of progress,” one medical student in the room reflected. And she couldn’t have said it better. Most people are likely to evaluate each task as they receive it, thinking: I can do that; I have to do that. But then they think, whether intentionally or subconsciously, is this task worth […]
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