Aspiring Docs Diaries

Stories: Motivation

Aug 1, 2023

Still Here: My Experience with Repeating a Year of Medical School

Marthena Phan

On a hot and humid July afternoon, the white coat ceremony for the class of 2025 at the Florida International […] Read More

Aug 15, 2022

The ‘No’ Flow

Sanjana Pawar

Yet another “no.” Red boxes covered my Google sheet listing possible shadowing opportunities, as another clinic either turned me away […] Read More

Jul 26, 2022

The Guinea Pig Complex: Uncertainty in the Age of Virtual & Pass/Fail Medical School

Michael Foster

“We are the guinea pig class.” My classmates and I often joke about this. We started medical school in the […] Read More

Dec 10, 2020

Lessons in 911

Julia Kim

The difference between theory and application punched me in the face when I was two weeks into working as a […] Read More

Jun 11, 2020

Patience Makes Perfect: Turning Med School Rejection into a Success Story

Michael Foster

I’m pretty open about the fact that I was not accepted to any medical school the first time I applied […] Read More

Apr 15, 2020

Prioritizing Wellness in the Whirlwind of COVID-19

Varina Clark

In the midst of COVID-19, our communities have been stricken with a virus that has changed the landscape for how […] Read More

Feb 28, 2020

Becoming (And Staying) Human

Luke Burns

It’s funny how strictly we label each phase of our medical training. We carefully divide and demarcate each stage: premed, […] Read More

Jan 30, 2020

Letter to My First-Year-Self: Reflections on my Medical School Journey

Elorm Avakame

It’s been a few months since the medical school year started anew. For the first year students, the #FirstDayofSchool selfies […] Read More

Nov 13, 2019

Humanism in Medicine

Dharam Persaud-Sharma

When did it become okay to look the other way, cut corners or treat people like a commodity? Never in […] Read More

Aug 15, 2019

The Match Gods

Ogochukwu Ezeoke

Match week is possibly the most emotionally exhausting weeks in all of medical school, beating out waiting for board scores, […] Read More

Mar 18, 2019

A Day In My Shoes

Carlissa Auguste

This past summer, my feet hurt like they have never hurt before and I loved every second of it. I […] Read More

Sep 24, 2018

Trauma Bay One

Jordan Nichols

It was a warm and sunny late spring day. A comfortable 73 degrees, the birds were chirping their harmonious chorus […] Read More