Aspiring Docs Diaries
Stories by: Med Students
What Really Prepared Me for the Practice of Medicine
I recently found myself in the midst of my first rotation of medical school, outpatient internal medicine. Excited, and honestly […] Read More
Make Time for Fun
I wake up with sweat streaming down my face after another “salsa” dream. It is always the same; I elegantly […] Read More
A Work in Progress
My second rotation as a third year medical student was internal medicine. Unlike my first clerkship, family medicine, internal medicine […] Read More
Family First
Becoming a doctor is HUGE for a boy growing up in a Russian family – far more impressive than even […] Read More
Still Waiting for Someone to Pinch Me
Photo courtesy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This year’s White Coat Ceremony at Mount Sinai took […] Read More
Autonomy of a Different Kind
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, […] Read More
Time for Myself
Medicine is about serving others. It’s about developing a set of skills and knowledge and combining them with compassion to […] Read More
In Defense of Doing “Nothing”
During the fall of 2015 I was finishing up my last semester of college. The arduous medical school application process […] Read More