Dr. Farrah Fong is a third year family medicine resident at Rutger’s/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Outside of busy resident duties, she enjoys traveling, volunteering, and fitness. She attended undergrad at University of California- Davis and double-majored in Exercise Biology and Music Performance (Piano). Dr. Fong is also the co-founder ... Read more
Emily Millet
Updated June 23, 2022 by Emily Millet
One of the most exciting experiences during medical school is selecting the specialty in which you’ll be practicing. Choosing your specialty is more than picking a career; you are essentially picking an identity, and a ... Read more
Andrew Lee
Updated April 30, 2020 by Andrew Lee
“0600. I’m biking from my home to see a patient with a bleeding gastric ulcer. You’re welcome to join. Breakfast at my house at 0730. We’ll see patients after.” So began my day with Dr. ... Read more
John "Brewer" Eberly, Jr
Updated February 27, 2019 by John "Brewer" Eberly, Jr
Medical students are bombarded with decisions regarding what they want to do with their lives, from choice of specialty to options within the field itself. Quite a few medical schools these days push for students ... Read more
Adelle
Updated February 28, 2019 by Adelle
How to Think About Med Schools’ Primary Care Statistics Listener Lavender BloodPoison (not their real name) sent us a message saying they were impressed by CCOM’s Primary Care residency match statistics. And while many schools that ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 25, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
Dr. Perri Klass is a pediatrician and journalist for the New York Times, an author, and a professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University. She obtained her BA in biology from Harvard University (1979) ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 26, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
Republished with permission from here. The future of American health care remains uncertain. It was only a few weeks ago that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) narrowly evaded the congressional guillotine a mere seven years ... Read more
Matt Agritelley
Updated June 26, 2022 by Matt Agritelley
Central to the skillset of every physician is the differential diagnosis; this is the process by which new patients are evaluated to establish the most likely diagnosis. Similarly, the first clinical year of medical school is like ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated February 28, 2019 by Brent Schnipke
If you’re applying to medical school this year, you’re probably starting to think about what school you’d like to attend. Many students are encouraged to apply broadly, and on average, applicants apply to 16 medical ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 26, 2022 by AAMC Staff
The advent of the Affordable Care Act was meant, in part, to help to increase the access that all Americans have to healthcare providers. However, while this has meant that a larger number of families ... Read more
Brian Wu
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brian Wu
Some people develop the passion for medicine at an early age. Michael Clearfield, DO, was not one of them – but once he did find that passion, he ran with it for miles.Although he’d been ... Read more
Suzanne Barston
Updated March 16, 2019 by Suzanne Barston
Everyone seems to be talking about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). From New York to Los Angeles, the new regulations developed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 have become a much-debated and thoroughly studied topic. According to the ... Read more
Rick Pescatore
Updated June 27, 2022 by Rick Pescatore