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Bridging Personal and Professional Perspectives on Mental Health Medication

by Jacob Murphy

As medical students, we spend years preparing for the daunting hurdle that is the summer between the third and fourth year of medical school, a twelve week stretch in which you prepare for USMLE Step 2, perform at your highest caliber on a sub-internship in the specialty of your choice, and craft your application to residency. Accordingly, as I approached this part of medical...

March 28, 2025
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Code Blue

by Natalie David

Baby powder, body odor Dark red blood, pale white skin A mother’s cry, a baby’s silence     Image Credit: “Baby Feet” (CC BY-NC 2.0) by Joseph D’Mello Poetry Thursdays is an initiative that highlights poems by medical students. If you are interested in contributing or would like to learn more, please contact our editors.

March 20, 2025
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Bridging Personal and Professional Perspectives on Mental Health MedicationAs medical students, we spend years preparing for the daunting hurdle that is the...March 28, 2025

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