Wellness

AMSA’s response to USMLE scoring change recommendations

The Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring (InCUS) recently allowed public statements from medical students in regards to the potential USMLE Step 1 score change. The USMLE Step 1 was originally a pass/fail exam. However, this changed due to increased emphasis on the test to select residency candidates. Step scores have a huge influence on match...

Becoming less than human

3:30 am – Wake up. 4:00 am – Leave apartment. 4:15 am – Arrive at hospital. 4:20 am – Print out the patient list. 4:21 am – Split the list of 50 patients with your partner; go to a computer and write down every patient’s 24-hour vital signs, any reported fevers and what was done, what...

Healing the Healer: Breathing

  Health Hint: Breathing Exercises Breathing as a bridge It is thought by many cultures that the process of breathing is the essence of being. A rhythmic process of expansion and contraction, breathing is one example of the consistent polarity we see in nature such as night and day, wake and sleep, seasonal growth and...

Have trouble relaxing?

By: Ellen Pappas “I want to be a doctor because I want to help people.” A sentence that comes out of countless medical students’ mouths looking forward to their careers as caregivers. But sometimes medical students and health care professionals forget to care about themselves, too. I have found that some of the most important...