Aspiring Docs Diaries

Stories by: Med Students

Jul 9, 2014

Third Year Starting Line

We’ve all heard the jokes or warnings to not get sick during July because that is when the new doctors […] Read More

Jul 3, 2014

Medical School Dreams Come True for Undocumented Students and their Families – Three Perspectives

Medical School Perspective In October of 2012, Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine became the first medical school in […] Read More

Jun 10, 2014

Don’t Be Afraid to Think Big: A Medical Textbook on Health Equity

As undergraduates at the University of California, Los Angeles, we (Matt and Jamie) both served on the student board of […] Read More

Jun 2, 2014

Choosing a Specialty, a.k.a. “The Medical Student’s Conundrum”

When I decided to pursue a career in medicine, I had no idea what type of doctor I wanted to […] Read More

May 27, 2014

Today I Saved a Life

I wish I could tell you a story about fancy heroics – about an exploratory laparatomy, a chest thoracostomy, or […] Read More

May 14, 2014

Lessons From My First Patients

Through the International-Inner City-Rural Preceptorship (I2CRP) Honors Program at my school, I have had the unique opportunity to help provide […] Read More

Apr 23, 2014

3 Real #FirstWorldProblems

Many of us millennials toss around the term #firstworldproblems so easily. I know the fact that there’s whole milk in […] Read More

Feb 18, 2014

A Second Year’s Second Semester

It’s already February and there are only four more units (behavioral sciences, women’s health, musculoskeletal, and nervous system) before one […] Read More