Aspiring Docs Diaries

Stories by: Med Students

Dec 14, 2016

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

Nov 28, 2016

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

Nov 10, 2016

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

Oct 31, 2016

Family First

Becoming a doctor is HUGE for a boy growing up in a Russian family – far more impressive than even […] Read More

Oct 19, 2016

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

Oct 11, 2016

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

Sep 26, 2016

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

Sep 12, 2016

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