Aspiring Docs Diaries

All Stories

Sep 12, 2018

Embrace Simplicity

Pavan Mehat

Serendipitously, just before beginning my third year Integrated Community Clerkship (ICC) at UBC, one of my best friends recommended I […] Read More

Sep 10, 2018

Premed by Day, Mom by Night

Andrea Rano

Once you make the decision to go on the journey of becoming a doctor, how do you acquire the skills […] Read More

Sep 4, 2018

A letter to an Incoming Medical Student

Jocelyn Carnicle

Dear Colleague, Congratulations! Welcome to an exciting time and the beginning of a life-altering experience. You are now part of […] Read More

Aug 27, 2018

Why I’m Pursuing Rural Medicine

Weston Eldridge

I grew up in Flora, Mississippi, a small, bucolic town of about 2,000. I cherish the memories of being in […] Read More

Aug 20, 2018

Be Cautious. Be Confident.

David Beckett

When I chose to pursue a career in medicine, I was in my freshman year of college. I decided that […] Read More

Aug 16, 2018

Tangible Meanings

Gaurav Majmudar

I remember walking into my freshman orientation at Boston College (BC) anxious about what the next four years meant for […] Read More

Aug 6, 2018

Resilience is Key

Belle Pace

Having finished my second year of undergrad as a premed, I have been able to reflect a lot on what […] Read More

Jul 30, 2018

My outlook as a DACA medical student

Cesar E. Montelongo Hernandez

My name is Cesar, I am a fourth-year student in the MD-PhD program at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. I […] Read More

Jul 23, 2018

Learning from Non-medical Volunteering

Stephanie Cantu

After years of volunteering in different medically related fields, I discovered that you shouldn’t only volunteer in medical settings. In […] Read More

Jul 16, 2018

Is there a right residency program for me?

Jason Han

One would think that after having successfully completed so many application cycles to get to the point of applying to […] Read More