Category: Career Advice
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The Role of Continuing Education in Healthcare: What should you focus on?
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Explore why continuing education is vital for healthcare professionals to keep up with rapid innovations, enhance clinical skills, and advance careers in today’s evolving medical landscape.
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The Ultimate Guide to Transitioning from Nursing Classroom to Clinicals
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Unlock essential strategies for a successful transition from the nursing classroom to nursing clinicals with this guide, featuring tips and resources for nursing students.
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How to Balance Your Academic and Personal Life in Medical School
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Discover essential tips for maintaining balance in medical school by addressing mental, physical, and relational well-being to enhance your overall health.
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The Best DO Podcasts
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Dive into the world of osteopathic medicine with a list of the best osteopathic podcasts for medical students and practicing DOs. Enhance your knowledge of osteopathy, connect with the DO community, and explore alternative approaches to patient care through this unique list of engaging podcast content!
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Networking for Success: Strategies Every Health Professional Should Know
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Discover the power of networking in healthcare with practical strategies designed for medical students, faculty, and professionals. This short guide covers the essentials of building meaningful connections, overcoming common networking challenges, and making the best of both formal and informal opportunities to enhance your career. Embrace the art of networking…
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How to Collaborate with Your ER Attending
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Embark on your emergency medicine clerkship with confidence by learning how to effectively collaborate with your ER attending. This guide covers essential skills for taking patient histories, understanding the flow of the emergency department, and communicating effectively with patients and colleagues. Enhance your clinical practice and build strong professional relationships…
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How to Collaborate Effectively with Your Attending: Neurology Edition
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Welcome to your neurology clerkship! Discover key strategies for mastering patient examinations, enhancing clinical skills, and maximizing learning opportunities during this unique rotation.
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The Best Resolutions for Healthcare Students in 2025
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Embrace the opportunity to thrive in your medical education with crucial resolutions tailored to healthcare students. From prioritizing self-care and enhancing clinical skills to fostering professional relationships and engaging in lifelong learning, these strategies will help you excel in your journey as a future healthcare professional.
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A Quick Guide to the Best Nursing Podcasts
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As busy students and professionals, we know that a nurse’s free time is both precious and scarce. To help you use that time most effectively, we’ve created a list of the best nursing podcasts to help you enhance your nursing knowledge and skillsets. Stay informed about the latest trends, explore…
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The Most Frequently Asked Questions About Becoming a PA: What You Need to Know
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PAs, or physician associates (or assistants), are licensed clinicians who provide medical services to patients of all ages and stages of life while under the supervision of an MD or DO. As this essential profession becomes more popular and the number of PA training programs increases, let’s take a moment to…
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How to Impress Your Attending: Internal Medicine Edition
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Internal medicine is a vast specialty covering all major organ systems, common diseases, rare diseases, and everything in between. Not even a seasoned internal medicine specialist can possibly know it all. The excellent news is that most Internal Medicine attendings don’t expect a third-year medical student to know it all.…
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How to Prepare Your Residency Applications
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When you begin medical school, it can feel like you’re at the base of a mountain, starting your journey to the top, with medical residency applications waiting for you at the peak. Before you know it, you’re in your third or fourth year of medical school, and it’s time to…
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How to Impress Your Attending: Surgery Edition
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Welcome to your new surgery clerkship! To help you thrive during your clinical rotations, we’re sharing practical, hands-on advice from experienced medical professionals to help you make the most of your surgery rotation. Your surgery rotation is unique and exciting in comparison to your other rotations because you get to go…
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A Helpful List of Nursing Education Conferences to Attend in 2025
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Are you ready to elevate your nursing career in 2025? We’ve curated a comprehensive list of nursing education conferences that will align with your professional goals, whether you are a student, faculty member, or administrator. Attend events like the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Conference and the National Nurse…
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A Helpful List of Major Medical Education Conferences in 2025
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Ready to advance your career in healthcare? Our updated guide to 2025 medical conferences is here to help you connect with peers, explore innovative advancements, and share your research. Whether you’re a student, faculty member, or administrator, these events provide invaluable networking and professional development opportunities tailored to your goals.…
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On The Mentorship Process and How To Be A Good Mentor [Infographic]
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The idea of a traditional mentor-mentee relationship can seem old-fashioned in an age where online networking and advice are readily available at the click of a button. However, these uniquely meaningful relationships remain crucial because they provide valuable guidance, support, and insights that can significantly boost your personal and professional…
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What Is Intersectional Healthcare and Why Is It Important?
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Today we’re discussing the concept of intersectionality and how the intricate interplay of diverse identities impacts an individual’s experiences, and the need for clinicians and caregivers to recognize and acknowledge each patient’s identity to provide the best possible healthcare outcome.
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New to Nursing: 20 tips for early career nurses
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In today’s Osmosis blog, we’re sharing top tips from a recent webinar with our very own Nurse Paige and Nurse Maria on how to excel in your first year on the job. Take a moment to relax (we’re absolutely sure you deserve it) and share it with other new nurses on your team. You did it! You made…
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Ask-a-Nurse: Oncology nursing
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In this week’s Ask-a-Nurse column, Nurse Liz advises nursing students to join a society or network related to their specialty while enrolled in a nursing program. Welcome back to the Osmosis Ask-a-Nurse column! One learner asked, “What are the best resources for oncology nursing?” Many nursing specialties, including oncology, have…
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How to Navigate Your Nursing Career: Paths, Progression, and Opportunities
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You’ve decided that a career in nursing is in your future, but how do you get started, and what kind of professional path should you follow? Today’s Osmosis blog offers helpful guidance on how to become a nurse, different types of nursing career paths, and how to pursue them. Congratulations…
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How to Write a Compelling Personal Statement for Your Med School Application
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In today’s Osmosis blog, we’re giving you an advantage over the competition with this quick guide to writing a compelling personal statement on your medical school application. Discover valuable tips and techniques to effectively showcase your motivation, unique qualities, and passion for practicing medicine! If you were to look at…
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Unlocking the Secrets to Publication: Insights and tips for success from editors
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Discover insights from Elsevier’s Clinical & Research Manager, Dr. Ximena Alvira, on navigating the journal publication process, crafting clear manuscripts, and selecting the right journal for your research paper submission.
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Ask-a-Nurse: Nursing externship opportunities
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Welcome back to our Ask-a-Nurse corner. One of our learners asked, “Do you believe nurse externships are beneficial during the school year for nursing students considering the time balance?” Read on for Nurse Liz’s helpful advice on deciding whether a nursing externship is the right opportunity for you. There are often externship…
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Ask-a-Nurse: First post-grad job
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Welcome back to our Ask-a-Nurse corner! One of our learners asked, “Do you believe new grad nurses should work on a medical-surgical floor?” Osmosis Senior Nursing Content Manager, Liz Lucas, shares her insights on choosing the right path for you after graduating from nursing school. It is pretty common for nursing…
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Ask-a-Nurse: Memorizing on the Job
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Welcome back to our Ask-a-Nurse corner! Not too long ago, a few of our learners asked, “How can one easily remember all the right values of the vital signs when checking a patient? Osmosis Nursing Content Manager, Kelsey Lafayette, DNP, ARNP, FNP-C, flew to rescue with her response. Oof. Vital signs,…
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A List of Essential Osteopathic Medical Education Journals
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Osteopathic medical education research improves teaching and training strategies, helps determine effective policies for the field, and shapes the future of clinical practice. Read on to learn more about current osteopathy-focused journals in today’s Osmosis blog.
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How to Find the Right Mentor for Your Healthcare Career
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Mentors play a critical role in the lives of aspiring doctors, nurses, and other caregivers by serving as teachers, role models, advocates, and trusted advisors. In today’s Osmosis blog, find out how to choose the right mentor for your personal and professional goals. Introduction Being mentored by someone genuinely invested…
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Career Paths in Medicine: Entrepreneurship
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If you are studying medicine, you should know there isn’t just one path to choose from. The careers that are available for medical professionals are countless. Today in this blog, Osmosis Medical Education Fellow Aylin Canik shares her few tips for those who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in entrepreneurship.…
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Alternative Careers in Nursing
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Nursing is a complex and evolving profession that offers endless career opportunities. Depending on location, skills or interests, as well as financial capabilities and experiences, obtaining a nursing degree can lead to many opportunities in different healthcare settings. In this article, we break down the different career paths for nursing,…
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Your Nursing Grad School Questions: Answered
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You may not be really thinking about graduate school yet because you’re in the throes of your undergraduate degree, but it’s never too early to start planning for what your next degree might be! A recent report stated that nearly 88,000 bedside nurses are leaving to go to graduate school.…