Category: Allopathic Medicine (MD)
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How to Stick to a Strict Study Schedule in Medical School Using Osmosis
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Get tips on how to stick to a strict study habit to be successful in medical school and the boards. The pressure of the reckless flow of water from the water hose gushed down my throat for hours upon hours without a slight moment to catch my breath, and then,…
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Learning How to Use Spaced Repetition in Medical School
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Learn how spaced-repetition flashcards helped a medical student improve memorization and application of medical facts, leading to higher exam scores and clinical confidence.
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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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How I’m Managing Medical School with OCD
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Medical school is hard, but I’m sure you know this already. What they don’t tell you though, is that many medical students experience high amounts of stress – and this stress carries well into residency and beyond. As a result, mental health conditions can be exacerbated by the stress. A…
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Become a Master Clinician and Ace USMLE Step 2 with Osmosis
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Osmosis has been working hard to develop clinical content for those studying for USMLE® Step 2 or currently in clinical rotations at hospitals so you can develop the skills you need to become a master clinician. Here are several helpful resources from Osmosis: Learn to think clinically with the Osmosis…
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7 of the Best Valentines Day Gifts for Medical and Health Students
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Medical and health students lead very stressful lives. As their loved ones, we want to cheer them on and support them. Maybe you are hoping to brighten the day of one of your fellow classmates. This Valentine’s Day, show them some love with a few gifts that could help make…
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Top 3 tips you should know about COMLEX-USA Level 1
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COMLEX-USA® Level 1 measures your knowledge of the biomedical sciences relevant to solving clinical problems and promoting osteopathic medical care. Tip 1: Should you take both USMLE® and COMLEX-USA®? In order to obtain physician licensure from an osteopathic school, you must take and pass all three levels of the COMLEX-USA®. Some osteopathic schools…
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5 Strategies to Acing the USMLE Step 1 and COMLEX-USA Level 1
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As you probably know, USMLE®️ Step 1 and COMLEX-USA®️ Level 1 assesses whether you can apply scientific basics to the practice of medicine. Osmosis is here to help you prepare for and ace the Step 1 and Level 1. Strategy 1: Plan Ahead 6 months to 24 months before test day So, you know…
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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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My Step 1 Experience, Dr. George Koshy
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Learn how a medical student used a 3-month integrated study plan with trusted resources and daily checklists to prepare effectively for the USMLE® Step 1 exam
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Avoiding Errors In Patient Care
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Learn about essential tools and best practices that help healthcare professionals avoid medication, communication, and typographical errors, enhancing patient safety and care quality.
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What Clinics and Organizations do to Protect Medical Information
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There are many laws that are meant to protect patients and their information. Not everyone really understands the laws, protocols, and regulations that clinics use. It can range from a doctor or nurse refusing to disclose patient information to the technology that clinics implement protections. There are laws that doctors’ offices and…
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5 Tips for Effective Peer-to-Peer Learning
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Over the last four years of medical school, I have realized that my knowledge comes from a mosaic of sources. These included, but were not limited to, a multitude of textbooks, lecturers from many domains of scientific research, clinicians and residents from all fields of medicine, multidisciplinary members of treatment…
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Socio-cultural Awareness: 5 Common Cultural Treatment Practices
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As a medical student who also studied anthropology, it’s easy for me to apply my socio-cultural lens to the practice of medicine. Throughout my first year of clinical medicine, I’ve run across a number of examples of alternative practices and cultural healing. Although we are being trained in Western medicine,…
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Four Key Resources to Learn Histology
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Explore recommended resources for learning histology effectively, from comprehensive websites and apps to popular review books and video series.
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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…
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The Negative Effects of Competition Amongst Medical Students and 5 Tips to Overcome Them
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During a typical day in the third and fourth years of medical school, students work with countless other students. For example, on any given clerkship I work with anywhere from 0 students to 6 or more. So what happens when you put multiple medical students in a setting where we…
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To Conference, or Not to Conference? – Tips and Tricks for Medical Students
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By William GuntherEdited by Myles McKittrick Medical school is not all about studying your life away (that’s only about 99% of it!). But for those of you who are looking for a guilt free way to get out of the books while being able to meet fellow medical students, learn…