By: Ton La, Jr (T.J.) Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Houston, TX during the early morning hours on August 27. When I woke up, all I saw was devastation. Highway 288 transformed into a lake. The bayou running underneath was completely flooded with water spilling into the roads. Hermann Park, a place where I walk almost every […]
What Goes into a Medical School Application?
By: Emily Hause Prepare for the AMCAS by knowing what to expect. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not the December holidays—it’s medical school application season! Piecing together your medical school application The AMCAS application is open for submission, and with it, thousands of aspiring medical school students will be on their way to making their dreams […]
Yoga to Try It: How Yoga Stretched My Mind and Body
By: Sabrina Wang As a pre-med student, life gets pretty hectic. Between juggling classes, studying for exams, student orgs, volunteering, working, research, and finding time with friends, there really isn’t much time for anything else–except panicking over everything just listed and constantly feeling like you aren’t doing enough, and everything you were doing just wasn’t […]
10 Cardinal Rules for Surviving the First Year
By: Timothy Dixon So you’re starting your journey to medical school. Congrats! I am certain there’s quite the cocktail of emotions stirring inside of you comprised of excitement, motivation, and relief, mixed in with a little bit (or a lot) of fear and uncertainty of the unknown. Well they say hindsight is 20/20, and as […]
Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Medical School
When you decided that you wanted to go to medical school, you probably didn’t think it would be so “dangerous.” Not just physically dangerous, but mentally, as well. Your physical health may be at risk too with all the sleepless nights, hard work, and stress. However, it is your mental health that is a big […]
Leader Spotlight: Danielle Kelvas
Read about how AMSA’s Chair of Global Health Danielle Kelvas got started with AMSA, and what she’s focusing on now as a National Leader. MD Candidate Class of 2018, Focus: Emergency Medicine National Chair of Global Health When did you join AMSA? 2015 AMSA Leadership Experience I coordinated the global health scholars course with my colleague […]
Chapter Spotlight: Tulane University School of Medicine
Learn more about how the AMSA chapter at Tulane University School of Medicine makes advocacy and social activism a top priority. Chapter Objective: “At Tulane, AMSA is committed to pursuing a member-determined agenda of political and social activism in both the local New Orleans community and on a broader national level.” How did your chapter […]
8 Signs You’re a Pre-Med Student
By: 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 […]
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 […]
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