It’s never to early to begin laying the foundation for reaching your career goals and living out your life’s dream. In fact, preparation for a career in the medical profession should begin long before applying to medical school. A great place to start? Your freshman year of high school. St. Augustine, FL-based WOLFPACC offers three tips …
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It’s been said that to truly understand a man’s pain, one must walk a mile in his shoes. In an innovative collaboration, students at the Medical College of Wisconsin recently did just that when they strapped on the physical loads that America’s soldiers carry while deployed. “Oh my God. Walk up a hill with this? My …
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If you’re a current or prospective medical student, you’ve likely heard that an expected shortage of physicians in multiple specialties is just around the corner. The Association of Medical Colleges predicts a shortage of more than 130,000 family physicians alone by 2025. More than 20 other medical specialties also are expected to fall short of …
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Medical schools nationwide increasingly are sending students out of the laboratories and into the kitchen – and for good reason. A recent study published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, ranked the food we eat as the top factor in disease and premature death. Yet, until now, nutrition has been largely neglected …
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February is Black History Month. St. Augustine, FL-based WOLFPACC celebrates by saluting two pioneers in the medical industry – James McCune Smith and Rebecca Lee Crumpler. In 1837, Dr. Smith became the first African American to hold a medical degree, graduating at the top of his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and completing …
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If you’ve tuned in to CBS’s new medical drama Code Black, you’ll be most interested to know it’s helmed by someone much like you – a medical school graduate. Executive Producer Dr. Ryan McGarry graduated in 2009 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his residence at Los Angeles County General Hospital, known …
With upward of 40,000 surgeries under his belt over the course of his 37.5-year career in medicine, one might assume that Gino Mori, MD likely knew all there was to know about his profession. He disagrees. That’s why the 83-year-old surgeon re-enrolled in medical school six decades after he first graduated. Dr. Mori first graduated medical …
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It’s a great time to be a medical student, according to new data released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Research shows that the number of students enrolling in the nation’s medical schools has grown 25 percent since 2002, hitting a record 20,630. Also on the rise is the total number of med …
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For medical school hopefuls, receiving an acceptance letter is a highly anticipated attainment. The only thing better? Receiving multiple letters of acceptance from several institutions. So which do you choose? A key deciding factor may be in looking at the percentage of accepted students that various schools actually enroll. According to statistics compiled by researchers at …
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Each year, Mill Valley, CA-based Glassdoor, an online jobs and recruiting site, lists its top choices for our nation’s best careers. This year the physician assistant tops the company’s Best Jobs in America list. Commonly known as PAs, physician assistants practice medicine on teams under the supervision of physicians and surgeons, examining patients, diagnosing injuries and …
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