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8 Signs You’re a Pre-Med Student

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...

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...

Taking a gap year

As a sophomore in college, I was sure I wanted to go into the medical field. So sure, that I took a gamble and took the MCAT before the new changes were initiated in 2015. At that time, I was determined to go straight from college to medical school, residency, and finally to my career....

Shadowing a Trauma Surgeon: One Student’s Experience

By: Jennifer Tran-Kiem Shadowing a trauma surgeon can teach you more about emergency medicine than any textbook. A few years ago, my fascination with medicine started with emergency medicine. Now as an EMT, I’ve transported patients to the emergency room and have seen the kinds of emergency room patients that the emergency medicine physician handles. I’ve...