The most frequently asked question that I receive from students from around the world is 'should I apply to a Caribbean medical school?'. There are plenty of blog posts…
Author: Marc N. Katz
An interview with an emergency medicine resident who shares her experience after undergoing a heart transplant Today I had the opportunity to interview Alin (pronounced uh-leen). Up…
Joel Alcid is a third year internal medicine resident finishing up his final year of residency at Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine. Next year he…
Dermatology is one of the most competitive specialties in medicine. Today I sat down with Benny Wu who is a current dermatologyy resident at Broward Health Medical…
In my internal medicine residency program we work 28-hour shifts while rotating through the medical and cardiac ICU every 4 days. You show up at 7am and…
Two years ago I interviewed a fellow Caribbean medical graduate. I interviewed him because of his failure. Specifically his failure to match into residency. I wanted to…
I've been getting a lot of messages on Instagram about how to study for USMLE step 1 so figured I would put all of my answers into…
I grabbed a few beach pillows, put on my old worn out blue beach button down, poured myself a glass of whiskey, and walked down to the…
One of the most frequently asked questions that I receive from medical students is about how to prepare for their first year of resident. It parallels one…
I was recently interviewed on a podcast (Surviving Medicine) and was asked the simple question, 'why are you in medicine?'. In retrospect, that's the exact question I…