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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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Introduction As a health professional, knowing how to write a progress note is important. These progress notes are also known as SOAP notes. Why soap? Well, if you’ve written a progress note before, you know that SOAP is a useful shorthand for remembering the four components of note-taking: Now that…
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My Step 1 Experience, Dr. George Koshy
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Studying for USMLE Step 1 has been one of the most satisfying periods of my life. I started my preparation on May 31st, 2016. I had all the required study material but no specific plan to move ahead. I was in a time-crunch, and I needed a solution. Two weeks…
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Avoiding Errors In Patient Care
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When someone is admitted to the hospital, he or she is in a position of great vulnerability. Patients are counting on their caregivers to do things correctly and provide the best possible outcome for their injury, illness, or condition. Yet we live in a time of great stress in all…
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Bypassing The Limitations of Cancer Research In Humans
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Cancer is one of the toughest enemies of human health. We’ve spent billions of dollars across several decades trying to conquer it, yet there are still many forms of cancer that remain unbeatable. One of the fundamental problems in cancer research is finding an effective way to test potential therapies.…
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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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Martin Schlichte, CEO and Founder of Lecturio
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Martin Schlichte is the CEO and Founder of Lecturio, a leading e-learning platform—mainly for medical video education serving students as well as universities and medical institutions. Founded in Germany’s historic publishing center Leipzig in 2008, Lecturio advanced to one of the major players in the e-learning market in Europe. Martin…
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Dr. Dustyn Williams, Founder and Lead Educator of OnlineMedEd
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Dustyn Williams completed his undergrad at Yale and his med school at Tulane University School of Medicine. He’s a board-certified Internal Medicine hospitalist at Baton Rouge General where he is the Clerkship Director for Tulane students in the LEAD curriculum and Core Faculty for the Baton Rouge General Internal Medicine…
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Dr. Kristine Krafts, Founder PathologyStudent.com
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Kristine Krafts, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and School of Dentistry. Before deciding to teach full time, Dr. Krafts completed a pathology residency and fellowships in hematopathology and molecular pathology. One of the things you will pick up very quickly…
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Leaders in Medical Education, Dr. John Minarcik, Creator of Medical School Pathology
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Pathology is the foundation of medicine. If you have not met, “Super pathologist”, John R. Minarcik, MD, you are in for a treat. Dr. Minarcik is board certified in both clinical and anatomical pathology, and has over thirty years of experience, including 16 years teaching. He provides FREE medical school…
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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 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 have 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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If you ask a medical student to describe histology lectures or labs, they’d probably sum it up as a “big yawn” or “snooze fest.” As a budding pathologist, I found two reasons to explain the lack of interest in histology. First, I quickly realized that most students don’t think they’ll…
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OB/GYN Rotation coming up? – Maximize your productivity!
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Myles McKittrick, Medical Scholar at Osmosis & Medical Student at the National University of Ireland Galway. 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…
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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…
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Greys Anatomy Medical Advisor and Neurosurgeon, Dr. Allan Hamilton
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After four months of scheduling we were incredibly fortunate to get an interview with the impressive Dr. Allan Hamilton, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona and medical advisor to the popular Grey’s Anatomy. He shared some unique insights on his professional career, why he values creativity in himself and…
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The Osmosis App Map
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What I love about the app is just how simple it is. See the image? Have you clicked on it to see everything? That’s it! That’s the app. And not only is the app fairly simple, it’s very powerful. On the top in the Settings, Scoreboard, and Topics pages, you…
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Period Poverty: The Belittling of a Basic Need
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Millions of people around the world lack adequate access to hygienic menstrual products—a stark reality that the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) is working tirelessly to change. In today’s guest post on the Osmosis blog, Alexandra A. Alvarez, National Premedical President of AMWA, explores the topic of period poverty and…
