Category: Student Stories
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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 Will AI Tools Like ChatGPT Change Healthcare?
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become more reality than fiction in recent months, with big implications for the future of medicine and health care. Osmosis Medical Education Fellows (OMEF) Sameer Ahmed Mughal and Andres Acevedo-Melo consider how AI and ChatGPT can be used to help physicians diagnose tough cases, track everyday patient…
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How Medical Students Can Play a Vital Role in Disaster Relief Efforts
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Medical professionals play a crucial role during disasters by providing lifesaving services to affected individuals and communities. In today’s blog, Osmosis Medical Education Fellow (OMEF) Mohammad Aldalou considers how international medical students can contribute to disaster relief efforts on the ground as well as around the world. Introduction On February…
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How to Navigate Group Projects in Medical School Like a Pro
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How do you feel about being assigned to a group project? Osmosis Medical Education Fellow, Joy Mueni Muli, offers some helpful tips to make your next group project experience more enjoyable, collaborative, and productive on our latest blog. What goes through your mind when an instructor tells you that you’ll…
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Living With Hypochondria or Illness Anxiety Disorder – A Patient’s Perspective
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Hypochondriasis, or Illness Anxiety Disorder (formerly known as hypochondria), is a psychological disorder where someone develops chronic stress about an imagined illness. It often manifests after someone has lost a loved one to serious illness, and while it’s often dismissed and stigmatized, the condition can cause real harm by putting…
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Things I’ve Learned About Communication in a Country with 11 Official Languages
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Communication with patients is not always easy. It can get even more complicated when you do not speak the same language. Tom, a 3rd-year medical student, is sharing with us three tips on how to communicate better. We are always told that a comprehensive history can lead you to a…
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Studying Medicine in a Collapsing Country
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Rebecca shares what it is like to study medicine in a collapsing country. In recent years the people of Lebanon had to deal with political protests, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a catastrophic blast that killed many people. Read on to find out what it is like to try to pursue…
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Battling Impostor Syndrome: How to Fight Back
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Impostor Syndrome and Failure are phenomena that gravely affect the mental health of students in the healthcare sector. This article focuses on how students can cope. Impostor syndrome is falsely believing that one is inferior to others based on fear of failure or disappointment. This is not an uncommon phenomenon amongst…
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Taking Care of Mental Health as a Medical Student
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With the go-go-go pace of medical school, taking stock of your mental health can be a challenge. In today’s post, medical student Shrishti Sahai offers useful tips on how to keep your mindset healthy while dealing with the stress of learning medicine. Medical school is tough, and it takes a…
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What is it Like to Study Medicine in Colombia?
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Many of us feel the vocation of studying medicine, whether this call comes in childhood or adolescence. Most of us do not know the necessary process to be accepted by a university. In Colombia, It is not necessary to have an undergraduate degree to study medicine, therefore, when we finish…
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Your Why: The Most Powerful Tool You Have In Nursing School
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Today, Osmosis Student Nurse Ambassador Trey Parker shares what has helped him get through nursing school set on “hard mode”. From the pandemic disrupting clinical learning to a hurricane wreaking havoc on his community. He shares just how important a “WHY” can be and how you can pair that with…
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My journey to medical school
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As a child, the situations around me made me very curious about the human body, human needs, and how to help others. As I grew older, I knew I wanted to pursue a career in medicine. For me, the road was not always so easy. I grew up in Nigeria…
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How to Be A Mentor
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Today on the blog, Osmosis Medical Education Fellow, Joshua Ho, shares with us some tips on effectively thinking about your experiences in medical school or otherwise, and how to approach taking on the role of a mentor. When starting out in Med school, I was so lost that the last…
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I Failed Med Surg, What Do I Do Now?
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Failing a course in nursing school must be one of the hardest things to experience in your college career. Unfortunately, because of the climate we live in, we sometimes put our success on a time limit. This can be both a good and a bad thing; a good thing because…
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A Day in the Life of a Medical Student
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A Day in the Life of a Medical Student – a step by step guide on how to be the best medical student ever. Except not, because there are zero rules on how your days should be structured, and you know you best. How often has my morning routine changed?…
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What Motivated You to Study Medicine?
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It’s never easy to make a decision that will change your life completely. In today’s Osmosis blog, medical student and Osmosis Medical Education Fellow Desireé Franco shares her experience about the motivation you need in order to start this new way of life. In addition to everything you’ve heard, you…
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4 Ways You Can Start Improving Physician-Patient Communication Right Now
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Communication is the most important thing in any relationship, and with our patients, it is no exception. Here you will find four tips to improve communication with your patient. During four years, I was a caregiver for a family member with a chronic illness. At that time I met some…
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Living With Hypochondria: A Patient Experience
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Hypochondria or hypochondriasis is a psychological disorder where someone develops chronic stress about an imagined illness. It often manifests after someone has lost a loved one to serious illness, and while it’s often dismissed and stigmatized, the condition can cause real harm by putting excess stress on the body. Today…
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With A Little Help From My Friends: The Importance of Social Support for Healthy Behaviors
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While the pandemic has fragmented many of our social circles, there is great benefit in trying to put those pieces back together, as well as bring new circles of people together remotely! Today’s blog post from Osmosis Health & Wellness Coach, Ishan Dahal, discusses the immense positive impact social support…
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How to Keep Up With Your Hobbies in Medical School
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Life as a medical student can be tough and pull you into a tiring study routine in which you often forget to do things for yourself. This article discusses why it is important to keep practicing your hobbies and provides a few strategies on how to prioritize YOU. I believe that how…
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My Non-Traditional Journey Into a Top-100 Ranked Medical School
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Can a self-proclaimed “poor-performing” student still do well in a top-100 ranked medical school? Yes! That is, if you “seize opportunities rather than being afraid of failure” like fourth-year medical student Anthony Mompiere. He shares why rejections aren’t the end of the world, and why pushing past them can actually…
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How to Cope With A Patient’s Death in Medical School
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Patient care in medical school involves the two sides of a coin: recovery or deterioration of the patient’s health. Many medical students may not be fully prepared for the impact of losing a patient. Join Joy Muli, a medical student and Osmosis Medical Education Fellow, as she shares how to…
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Osmosis: An Organization With Ubuntu
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Medical students are faced with multiple challenges while attending medical school, one of them being the plethora of resources and which one to choose. Today on the blog, OHLI, Nichole Anderez shares how Osmosis—”an education platform with Ubuntu”—made it easier for her to feel truly connected to her studies. As…
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Useful Life Hacks for Medical Students
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Life in medical school is not always easy to tackle. In today’s Osmosis blog, medical student and Osmosis Medical Education Fellow, Javed Iqbal, shares his experiences and life hacks he thinks every student needs to know. Study hacks & memory techniques Medicine has always been among most respected professions. But…
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Financial Strategies for Health Professional Students to Save and Manage Money Better
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In today’s guest post from Surviving College, we will be addressing the big elephant in the room that we wish was invisible—money! During medical school, we tend to ignore financials until after graduation, which can be overwhelming and stressful. It’s important to know what you need, how much to borrow,…
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Overcoming My Fear of Blood as a Med Student
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All of us question the reason to choose a career path. Some of us struggle right before the decision, and some of us after. Medicine is a tough decision, after all. But what are you supposed to do if you are afraid of blood AND still want to study medicine?…
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Breaking Barriers: Systemic Racism in Medical School
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In the United States, minorities must often approach the world with a set of unspoken rules and regulations. They often feel unspoken pressures to challenge stereotypes and “break barriers.” On today’s blog, Osmosis Medical Educational Fellow Dianne Omire-Mayor shares with us the barriers that need to be broken for black…
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How to Survive the First Year at Medical School
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You got into Medical school! Congratulations! You have worked hard to get here and hopefully can’t wait to get started! However, after selection into medical school, a new stage of life begins—and it can be a big adjustment. Today on the Osmosis blog, Ather Iqbal, an Osmosis Medical Education Fellow in…
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Coping With Sudden Loss in Medical School
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Adjusting to the rigors of medical school is a challenging process. Imagine having to face one of the most difficult hurdles of your life during that adjustment: the sudden loss of a parent. Today on the Osmosis blog, Lois Sharpe, a medical student, shares how she coped with the sudden…
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What Being A Musician Taught Me About Practicing Medicine
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Today on the blog, Osmosis Medical Education Fellow, Joy Mueni will share how music has taught her lessons that apply to medicine! Playing a musical instrument as a medical student has a myriad of benefits in the clinical practice of medicine. From nurturing patience to increasing self-expression, playing a musical…