Tag: pre-clinical years

5 Things To Include In Your LOR Packet

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays! This is a continuation of last week’s post on securing recommendation letters! :]

I started putting together “LOR packets” in college, and I’ve kinda just gone with it ever since then, because they seem to work out rather well!

Aside from the obvious necessary …

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5 Tips For Securing Recommendation Letters

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays! While this isn’t necessarily a medicine/health-specific topic, it’s rather pertinent to my current life, and possibly a lot of your lives as well, so we’re goin’ with it!

I’ve been in school for a long, long time (technically in 21st grade), and have definitely filled out …

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Choosing A Base Site (Part 1)

I’m not entirely sure how each medical school sends off their students to do their clinical rotations in their 3rd and 4th year, but for us, the way they did it was probably the fairest method they could think of (aka equally unfair for everyone).

They tried, they really did, but choosing a base site …

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The Healthy Mind Cookbook

Way back in my pre-clinical years (which was actually last experienced less than a year ago), my school decided to use our class to experiment with a curriculum change. We moved into a systems-based approach, and although the thought process behind it was great…as with most new things, it was/is not without its kinks, and …

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“after boards, i’ll…”

It seems so far away. So, so far away. Just one more week left and I will hopefully be done with this exam forever. I took a practice half-exam yesterday and it was a terrible, terrible time. (I am the poster child for all the terrible habits/things you should not have/do while test-taking.) But I …

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