Stories by: Med Students

It was my first time interviewing a patient. Standing outside the room, I ran through OLDCARTS in my head, the […] Read More

January 8, 2016 After the last exam of our first semester of our first year, we joked that we were […] Read More

I’m sitting in a bustling restaurant on the Upper West Side between two first-year medical students. It’s revisit weekend at […] Read More

“Thank you for role-playing with me,” said the standardized patient, a hired actor playing the role of a patient in […] Read More

Read Part 1 of this piece here. The Questions All of my interviews were one-on-one, thirty to sixty minute sessions […] Read More

Every week, for two hours, I am granted reprieve from the hard sciences and voluminous textbooks traditionally associated with the […] Read More

My interview days were some of the best days in the entire med school admissions process. They were exhilarating, exhausting, […] Read More

My father and I woke at 4:30 each morning to the sound of a loudspeaker on our neighbor’s roof announcing […] Read More