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Taking Care of Patients in Today’s Electronic World

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.
How to Choose a Medical Specialty

5 Tips to Help You Choose a Medical Specialty

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. Kansagra, Author and Twitter Star Shares His Journey and Advice

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.
Zig or Zag: There Are Multiple Premed Paths to Medical School

Zig or Zag: There Are Multiple Premed Paths to Medical School

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.

UMD AMSA Resources

Thank You! Thank you, UMD AMSA members, for letting Allison and myself join you for a great meeting. [hcshort id=”15″] We truly hope you got something out of it. Please…
Getting a Mentor to Guide Your Premed Path

Getting a Mentor to Guide Your Premed Path

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.

The Journey to a Caribbean Medical School

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.
16 Golden Rules of Medicine for Premeds and Beyond

16 Golden Rules of Medicine for Premeds and Beyond

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.

The Scariest Things We’ve Encountered on our Path

Allison and Ryan sit down for a Halloween inspired podcast about the scariest things they encountered during their premed, medical school and residency lives.

Question and Answer Session on Google Hangouts

Allison and I change things up and do a live Google Hangout and answer questions that were emailed in, and questions that were asked by other people that joined us on the hangout.   We covered questions about the best way to fit in extracurriculars as a freshman in college. There is a burning desire to show admission committees that you are motivated and committed to helping others, but at what cost? You need to make sure that you can pace yourself properly with your new workload as a college student. Once you have your courses figured out, then start adding in the extracurriculars!   We talk about a lot more too!