Thank you for 2013! In this episode, we bring you the Best of 2013 - a recap of some of our favorite and most-downloaded podcast episodes from this last year.

Ryan and Allison go through everything premeds and medical students wish was under the tree for Christmas (or the Hanukkah bush! :)). We cover books, tools and more.

Dr. Regina Harrell, a geriatrician, recently voiced her frustrations about EMR systems in an online piece. We talk about house calls and working with EMRs.

Allison and Ryan go over 5 things that you should be thinking about when starting your career as a medical student and starting to narrow down what you want to do when you grow up!

Dr. Sujay Kansagra, author of Everything I Learned in Medical School joins us to talk to us about his path to medical school, including his struggles.

Dalya Munves is a 2nd year medical student at The University of Texas at Houston. She shares with us her nontraditional path into medical school, and shows that you don’t have to be like everybody else to follow your dreams.

Alexa Mieses, a 2nd year Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai student, joins us to talk about how mentoring positively affected her path to medicine and why she continues to give back by mentoring others.

We talk with Jered Weinstock, a 3rd year Caribbean Medical Student, about his path to attending a AUC and some of the challenges he has faced along the way.

Allison and I talk about 16 Rules of Medicine in our "Golden" Podcast. This is our 50th podcast! 50 is the Golden Anniversary for all you Hallmark buffs. We talk about some of the most important things that premeds and medical students need to think about on their path to becoming physicians.