Category: Clerkships
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Osmosis Product Updates: 2025
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Osmosis is excited to share the latest updates for 2025! Learn about the latest platform updates, new features, and enhancements right here.
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USMLE® Step 2 Question of the Day: Leg pain
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Prep for the USMLE® Step 2 CK exam with this case study that focuses on a 36-year-old woman with acute leg pain. Learn how to recognize the common origins of thrombus and identify appropriate management steps. Dive into the details and sharpen your clinical skills for effective patient care!
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USMLE® Step 2 Question of the Day: Serum potassium
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Prepare for your USMLE Step 2 CK with a question focusing on hypokalemia in adults. Can you formulate and prioritize a differential diagnosis for a patient presenting with hypokalemia, and identify the additional tests needed to confirm your diagnoses? Enhance your clinical reasoning skills with this important assessment. A 26-year-old…
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How to Collaborate with Your Psychiatry Attending
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Welcome to your new psychiatry 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 psychiatry rotation. We’ve compiled a quick psychiatry clerkship guide to help you seamlessly navigate your psychiatry rotation. The Fundamentals of…
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Understanding Substance Use Disorder: A helpful guide for health professionals
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Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is a health condition involving a patient’s uncontrolled use of a substance, such as alcohol, drugs, and medications, that affects an individual’s daily life by impairing their physical and mental health, along with social functioning. There are about 20 million people in the US (approximately 6% of the total…
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A Quick Reference Guide to Male Reproductive Health Disorders
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Despite the importance of reproductive health in relation to overall well-being, many people avoid discussing it due to stigma, cultural norms, fear of judgment, lack of awareness, privacy concerns, and apprehension about medical intervention. Yet several reproductive health conditions significantly impact not only a male patient’s physical health but also…
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Top Ten Health Conditions That Are Easily Misdiagnosed
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An accurate diagnosis is the cornerstone of medicine and the basis for any treatment. Nonetheless, a misdiagnosis can happen to any clinician due to a variety of issues, including overlapping symptoms or referencing an incomplete medical history. Let’s look at a quick case study to consider the challenges and potential…
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How to Impress Your Attending: Obstetrics and Gynecology Edition
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Welcome to your clerkship in obstetrics and gynecology! You’ll find this rotation beneficial no matter your future specialty because you’ll very likely encounter pregnant patients, whether you’re a primary care physician or a surgical subspecialist. Probably the best part of your OB/GYN clerkship is that you’ll gain valuable skills that…
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A Quick Reference Guide to Signs and Symptoms Associated with Diabetes Mellitus
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Learn to identify common signs and symptoms of diabetes mellitus, including hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, acanthosis nigricans, and vascular changes, to improve diagnosis and care.
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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 Discuss Sensitive Topics with Your Patients
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Enhance your ability to engage patients in sensitive medical discussions with empathy, active listening, and culturally competent communication for better outcomes.
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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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Mastering the Match Interview: Expert Tips for Success for Medical Students
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We’re sharing tips with medical students on how to interview successfully after Match Week on today’s Osmosis blog. Learn how to stand out from the competition by asking the right types of questions and carefully honing their interviewing skills. Let’s get started! After meticulously crafting your residency application, it’s time to…
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What Is Intersectional Healthcare and Why Is It Important?
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Learn how intersectionality shapes patient experiences and how healthcare providers can deliver more equitable, respectful, and effective care.
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The Osmosis Ultimate Guide to Thriving in Clinical Rotations
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Clinical rotations are a pivotal time for medical students because they take their first big step toward becoming full-fledged doctors. Your days are filled with long hours, there’s a lot of pressure to perform, and you have to make sure to study for exams like USMLE Step 1®. It’s also…
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Importance of Review of Systems
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Discover how a complete review of systems (ROS) can lead to making critical diagnoses and ultimately improving patient outcomes.
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Tips for Transitioning to Third Year
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Clinic years of medical school are vastly different than the preclinical years and require new study habits, work styles, and a lot more people skills. This blog post will acknowledge the big shock that is third year, identify some tips and tricks, and remind students that they are not alone…
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Clinical Rotations: Expectations vs Reality
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Most pre-clinical students have a familiar yet foreign idea of how a hospital works. In this blog, Kieren talks through what he expected going into a hospital for the first time and how this matched with what actually happened during his first week. Introduction The ideas and expectations of what…
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Breaking Bad News: Using the SPIKES Protocol vs. the BREAKS Protocol
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Learn how to deliver tough medical news to patients using the SPIKES and BREAKS protocols to enhance communication and create better patient outcomes.
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A Brief Intro to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) Specialty for Medical Students
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This blog explores the medical specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), what exactly it is, and how to become a successful applicant for residency. As I was shadowing a PM&R physician, he wisely pointed out how a single moment in time, such as a car accident or a stroke,…
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How to Impress Your Attendings During Clinical Rotations
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Are you ready to embark upon your third year? It’s a time in a medical student’s life where you go from simulated cases and enter into real life scenarios. Read on to ensure you are prepared to enter the professional world and stand out amongst your peers. I am beyond…
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How to Thrive During Clinical Rotations and Make the Most of Your Time in the Clinic
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Clinical rotations are one of the most challenging (and rewarding) parts of medical school. Learn 12 practical strategies to improve your clinical skills, stay organized, work effectively with your team, and make the most of every clerkship.
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Your USMLE® Step 2 CK Questions Answered: The Osmosis Ultimate Guide
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Get ready for USMLE Step 2 CK with a handy guide to exam content, question types, scheduling, and healthy study habits to maximize your success with Osmosis!
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The Osmosis Ultimate Guide to the NRMP® Match
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The Osmosis Ultimate Guide to the NRMP Match helps medical students navigate the residency process with expert tips, deadlines, and matching strategies.
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5 Easily Avoidable Medical Malpractice Cases
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Learn from real-life medical malpractice cases where small mistakes led to serious consequences. Understand key lessons to improve patient safety and avoid lawsuits.
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A Day in the Life of a Clinical Student
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In today’s Osmosis blog, a medical student discusses their experiences while on clinical rotations compared to their basic science courses, and how he is successfully navigating this part of his medical educational journey. As a basic science student, I had always speculated and dreamed of what it would be like…
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How To Choose Your Medical Specialty
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Find out how a 4th-year med student approaches choosing a medical specialty by balancing USMLE scores, personal strengths, and career goals for residency success.
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How I Studied for the Shelf Exams and Survived Clinical Year
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Clinical year can feel overwhelming, but effective studying doesn’t require perfection. Discover practical, high-yield strategies for shelf exams, clerkships, and balancing medical school with life outside the hospital.
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3 Tips to Write Progress Notes
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Discover how to write an effective SOAP progress note that tells the patient’s story clearly, communicates accurately with colleagues, and builds trust; all while avoiding common documentation mistakes.
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OB/GYN Rotation coming up? – Maximize your productivity!
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Obstetrics and gynecology (‘OB/GYN’) are two subjects every student must study before he or she can graduate with a medical degree. It is the study of the female reproductive system, all the areas surrounding pregnancy and depending on the tutor may also involve some urology as well. Whilst starting my…