Performance evaluations, an important piece of the medical residency application packet, are often incomprehensible, sometimes useless and, at worse, misleading and unfair, according to a …
Tag: medical education
Manu under the microscope
Warning: This video could change the way you look at the world. So if you're willing, take the deep dive into this New Yorker magazine video and story, which capture …
My struggles with the third-year of med school – and the words that helped me
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Seeing ghosts in the form of patients
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Pathology vs. patients: Balancing morbid fascination with heart-felt care
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
TEDMED, in pictures
A group of MD and PhD students represented Stanford at TEDMED 2015, which was held last week. Several students have written about their experiences on Scope, …
Empathy and the darker side of pediatrics
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
“Dear Future Doctor, here’s a few things you’ll need to know”: Med students release parody video
Ready for the first-ever musical parody produced by Stanford medical students? Filmed on campus last month and released this afternoon, Dear Future Doctor features a group of mostly …
Using social media in clinical research: Case studies address ethical gray areas
If a public-health researcher is reviewing Facebook profiles of 14-year-old males for firearm references and discovers photos or words referencing a potentially threatening situation, should the …
To boost diversity in academia, “true grit” is needed
With evangelical fervor, Freeman Hrabowski, PhD, president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC), challenged the School of Medicine to tackle inequality throughout its ranks, an …
Mysteries of medicine: Why I’m not learning as much as I thought I would in medical school
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Considering premed? Some things to think about…
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Two weeks in Humboldt County, Calif.: Insight into rural medicine
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Learning how to learn medicine
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
NIH tries to reduce the gray in the grant pool
This 45-second animation vividly illustrates the funding crisis that young scientists face as they work to launch their research careers: For the last three decades, …
Integrating digital literacy into medical education
Bertalan Mesko, MD, PhD, has cracked the code on convincing medical students that digital literacy skills are equally as important as clinical knowledge. Seats in …