Category: Education
Match Day 2010 [Report]

Thursday was Match Day, the annual rite of passage when medical school graduates at the nation’s 130 medical schools are assigned to a hospital for their post-graduate training. The students request the type of specialty they want to practice as well as their top preferences for where they’d like to train. Summary: Family Care is on the rise…up 9% from [...]

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Shelf Week Fall 2009

A “SHELF” EXAM = – standardized test – NBME-administered subject examination – Given to us medical students at the completion of a course to a assess our understanding of the subject matter – Makes you realize you actually know nothing – Pushes you to the edge of insanity – Makes you contemplate what life would be like if you had [...]

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