professionalism

Hello everyone, I am in a perplexing situation at the intersection of the personal and professional. My mother and brother reside in another country, and my mother has a friend there who is a psychiatrist. He has treated my brother for years. (Yes, ethically this is problematic, but it’s...

Hey, I’m a fourth year at a top ~50 med school who has 4/7 honors including IM, 265 on step 2 and 7 pubs (multiple in high IF journals, one in IF>15, one in IF>20). My letters are strong and have mentors who are willing to call programs on my behalf who have trained at top programs (MGH, Penn...

Hey everyone, I've been thinking about starting a podcast and I wanted to know specifically how profanity in the podcast would look, especially going into medical school and residency further down the line. The profanity would obviously not be directed at any individual or pertain to any sort...

In my previous post, I discussed the importance of maintaining an appropriate tone in your admissions essay, and provided tips for checking your tone, specifically for finding a confident tone and avoiding arrogance. Once again, “tone” refers to a writer’s attitude toward their subject (and...

Hello everyone, this is my first post under the student doctor forums. Unfortunately, it is a post I thought I would never make. I have to be blunt here and say that I am currently devastated by the news I got this morning. I was dismissed from my school due to academic dishonesty with...

As a medical student with mild ASD (when I was first diagnoses, Asperger's was still its own thing), I have some advantages and some disadvantages. The calm, data driven thought process I have is useful in understanding the science of medicine, but my difficulty in reading social cues makes...

A resident clinical supervisor instructed a group of students to enter the electronic medical record of a patient whose care they were not involved in. This was done so that another student's chart note could be used as a model for incorrect charting. The person who filed the HIPAA complaint did...

I am a medical student between my first and second years of medical school - enjoying my summer before the pain of boards studying starts! I currently have my natural dark blonde hair color but I can't stop thinking about dying my hair a fun color - specifically purple. I realize this isn't...