Anxiety and Depression: The Risks of Medical School
July 12, 2017This post was created in partnership with BetterHelp. As a BetterHelp affiliate, we may receive compensation from BetterHelp if you purchase products or services through the links provided on this page. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), almost 30% of medical students suffer from depression or symptoms of depression. In…
Acupuncture and Popularity of Integrative Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices Today
July 12, 2017By: 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…
Chapter Spotlight: Medical University of Lublin
July 06, 2017Learn 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
July 01, 2017Read 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
June 27, 2017This post was created in partnership with BetterHelp. As a BetterHelp affiliate, we may receive compensation from BetterHelp if you purchase products or services through the links provided on this page. On average, the United States loses one physician per day to suicide, and this includes many physicians in training, usually within the first…
142 Pages
June 27, 2017By: 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…
