What Specialty Should You Choose? This is a question that many premedical and medical students ask themselves. This can be one of the most important decisions you will make in your career. Medical school provides you the opportunity to explore several specialties during your two years of clinical rotations. Medical students spend the second half…
Constantly Generating New Cells The human body has amazing restorative properties in response to injury, or just the constant turning over of cells through the process of apoptosis. While we cannot grow a new arm if one is cut off in an accident, or a new pancreas if we destroy our beta cells by consuming…
Do you already know what medical specialty you want to practice? Many of you already do. While others are still exploring. Regardless, joining one of the many medical specialty organizations in the US is a great way to get started. Many of these organizations offer free or discounted membership to international medical students. The following…
What is Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation? Only one of the best paid, highest satisfied, lowest-hour specialties out there. According to the American Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR), physical medicine and rehabilitation is about restoring functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities that affect the brain, spinal cord,…
A Fractured Ankle I was sitting in one of Dr Haddock’s examination rooms waiting for him to review my x-ray. I was nervous. Four weeks previously I had been struck in the right ankle by a midfielder while playing high school soccer. Being the manly man I was, I had walked around for nearly a…
What are Grand Rounds? In the late 19th century, Sir William Osler, the father of modern medicine, one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Medical School, and John Hopkins’ first professor of medicine, introduced an innovative physician-to-physician teaching forum to disseminate cutting-edge medical knowledge at the bedside. This became known as grand rounds. During grand…