Aspiring Docs Diaries

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May 21, 2014

Bias in the Medical School Admissions Process

The long and cumbersome process of applying to medical schools has finally come to a close this month for applicants […] 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

Apr 16, 2014

Health Disparities in Our Own Backyard

It has been quite some time since my last post. Qualifiers (the only thing close to finals at my school) […] Read More

Feb 26, 2014

Closing Time

Very recently, we had our last day of anatomy. Anatomy class quickly grew to become a defining milestone in our […] 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

Jan 30, 2014

The Subtleties of Medicine

They say medicine is a hard science, based on heavily scrutinized theories and proven postulates.  Medicine is supposedly made up […] Read More

Jan 6, 2014

Reflection Outside the Classroom

Photo Credit: Wikipedia I spent Thanksgiving evening on the floor of my mother’s one bedroom apartment, carving out pieces of […] Read More