Original Article: Winter Break, Guts and Brains, and Yahoo! Answers And all through the house… It’s winter break at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. For most people, that…
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Read MoreOriginal Article: Admissions Bias Against Alternative Medicine? For medical school admissions, package study of alternative medicine carefully Chrissa wrote in to say that she believes that complementary and alternative medicine systems…
Read MoreOriginal Article: Preparing for Residency Interviews Preparing for Residency Interviews Welcome to Night Float! In this series of special episodes, resident physicians take a break from the demands of their…
Read MoreOriginal Article: More Surgery for Better Global Health: Dr. Mark Shrime Is surgery too expensive for global health? Mark Shrime is an otolaryngologist (and American Ninja Warrior competitor) who may just…
Read MoreOriginal Article: The Business of Medicine Should medical students learn more about the business of medicine? Medical school definitely hasn’t made a priority of teaching about how medicine works as a…
Read MoreOriginal Article: “I’ve Got Some Bad News” Delivering bad news is an art. When many people think about becoming a physician, they focus on the positive side of the practice of…
Read MoreOriginal Article: Reaffirming points of pride, and life in rural Iowa We’re Iowa proud Dave has been noticing a certain mid-semester droopiness among some students at the College of Medicine. Perhaps,…
Read MoreOriginal Article: Med School Medicine vs. Real World Medicine In migrant health clinics, the ideal world of medicine goes out the window. In Iowa and many other states, migrant workers are…
Read MoreOriginal Article: Alumni Visit A visit with those who made it through med school Alumni Nate Curl, MD (emergency medicine, ’07) and Cathryn Turner (pediatric psychiatry, ’10) returned to the Carver…
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