General Surgery: Satisfaction of Immediate Results Surgeons save lives and heal the sick with their own hands. Surgery is the ultimate curative therapy for many patients and is an essential part of modern medicine. It is a career of constant excitement, high energy, quick decisions, and intellectual stimulation. No day is the same as the…
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING PREPARED You may have heard the Boy Scout motto, “Always be prepared!” I recently learned the importance of this motto in the life of a healthcare provider. I hope this experience will not only serve as a motivation for you to live your dream of becoming a physician, but also the…
Without Enough Sleep, Performance Suffers The story is a famous one, and it involves a third-year medical student falling asleep at a traffic light while returning from a long night on call. Police arrested the medical student because she appeared confused and disoriented, and failed their field sobriety tests. Later she was cleared when she…
Family Medicine: Diversity and Opportunity For those who want to do a little bit of everything, from office surgery to delivering babies, nothing beats the breadth, depth, and opportunities offered by a career as a family physician. The specialty of family practice encompasses such a wide range of medicine that it is difficult to truly…
Mindset or Set Shot? Many students dream of becoming a physician. Yet, once students arrive on campus and settle into their classes, many realize they aren’t quite pre- pared for the higher level of work and, worse still, don’t commit to working hard enough to get past that obstacle. When students struggle, they may decide…
Want to study better, not harder? Here’s how with spaced repetition Even in a problem-based learning (PBL) environment, such as that used by UHSA, there are still things you just have to memorize. Welcome to medical school! But when it comes to memorizing information, the age-old approach of reading the textbook multiple times over doesn’t…