Memoirs of an Aspiring doctor
After completing two years of basic science courses in medical school, every medical student has to pass the USMLE Step 1 Medical Boards, before beginning clinical training in hospitals. Your score is something that will be placed on every residency application, and is arguably the most important factors in obtaining a residency in America. As […]
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Last week I moved to Georgia, and lucky for me, my wonderful parents came down and helped me get situated. Naturally, the day after moving, we all thought it was a great idea to pack up and head to the closest national park. It was myself, my Dad, my Mom, and my Harper (5 year […]
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Term 5, is a unique term. After the first five weeks, there are no more SGU written exams, and the majority of your grades come from BSCE and CBSE, which are both standardized NBME tests. This is also the only term, where SGU takes its students to the hospitals for “clinicals.” Term 5 students go […]
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After finishing up our last SGU written test in February, a group of us (and many more groups) decided to head to Carriacou to stay the night. With the help of my friend Zena, we all bought our ferry tickets beforehand. I definitely recommend doing that, because the line on the morning we left (Saturday) […]
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In the past, Term 5 used to consist of pharmacology and pathophysiology with separate tests, as well as CBSE and BSCE. We were the first term to start covering pharm in term 4, so our term 5 was going to be different. In the first 5 weeks, we covered the remaining micro, pathology, and pharm, […]
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The dreaded term 4. The weed out term. The most intense/hardest term. Heading into term four, I felt super intimidated. I had only heard horror stories, about the workload, labs, material, professors, exams, etc. All any upper termer could say was that it was the most difficult term. We had just finished term three and […]
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From Banff National Park, we headed to Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park. If you ask google maps how far away Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park are, it will tell you they are a short 10 minute drive apart. This is true only if you are at South entrance, which is close to the North […]
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After camping at Glacier National Park for two days, we headed north to Canada for the first time!! We had allotted for two days at Canada, and if I got to go there again, I am easily going to spend 10-14 days there. Banff is probably Canada’s most well-known national park. However, they also have […]
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Term 3 lasts 6 weeks and requires you to either stay six weeks later (if you start your first term in January) or start six weeks earlier (if you start your first term in August). I started in August of 2017, so we started July 2nd, six weeks before term one, two, and five would […]
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After 3-4 weeks of winter break, term 2 started up with full speed ahead. Personally, I didn’t think term two was going to be as hard as term one, because I knew what to expect and I knew I could do this. With that being said, it was definitely harder for me. I told myself […]
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