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Cancer. "Surviving" med school took on a whole new sentiment in my third year rotations when I was diagnosed with not one, but two cancers.

A CANCER DIAGNOSIS DURING MEDICAL SCHOOL: BECOMING THE PATIENT

Cancer. People always joke about surviving medical school. With the long hours, tons of information, fatigue, and emotional up and downs – often times you feel like you’re drowning. Third year is even more notorious for this as you transition to clinical work in fields such as surgery, obygn, internal medicine, etc. “Surviving” took on …

Mental health is not always beautiful, but it can have beautiful outcomes. Here are 4 concrete ways I've invested in my mental health.

4 WAYS TO INVEST IN YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

Life is not always beautiful, but the outcomes can be. (1) Similarly, I’ve found that postpartum depression and anxiety are not always beautiful. But the outcome can be. I think the key word there is CAN. October 10, 2020 was World Mental Health Day. It’s been a few months since World Mental Health Day, but …

As we approach the end of clinical rotations, here are 10 tips to survive and thrive during clinicals from a med spouse and med student.

10 TIPS TO THRIVE DURING CLINICAL ROTATIONS FROM A MED STUDENT AND MED WIFE

And just like that, 8 weeks of surgery are done and we are already half way through psychiatry! As we are nearing the tail end of our clinical rotations, I thought it would be good to put together a list of things we’ve learned that have helped us get through clinicals as a family and …

Med students across the nation are uncertain when they will be able to take their USMLE boards like Step 1 because of COVID-19 restrictions and closures.

THE UNCERTAINTY OF STEP 1 AMID COVID-19

6:15 am. Alarm goes off. It keeps going off. I quietly yell at my husband… “Blade! Your alarm!” He snoozes it. Our two-year-old daughter is sleeping in the room right next to us, so I don’t want it to wake her up. Plus, let’s be honest, I want to keep sleeping… 6:25 am the alarm …

I'm Kristi and I started The Med School Wife blog in 2015 to write about navigating both sides of med school before, during, and after. Join me!

THE GAL BEHIND THE MED SCHOOL WIFE

Since officially starting medical school last year, I figured it’s time to reintroduce myself! I’m Kristi and I started The Med School Wife blog in 2015 in hopes to not only document our journey, but to become a resource to those in a medical marriage or relationship. MEDICAL RELATIONSHIPS I mostly wanted to write about …

LESSONS FROM THE ER IN MEDICAL SCHOOL

We went from cold and snowy Minnesota to warm and sandy Florida for one of Blade’s selective weeks. He signed up for a week of shadowing various physicians in the emergency room at the Mayo Clinic’s campus in Jacksonville, Florida. The following are a few of his Lessons from the ER in Medical School. We …

LESSONS FROM THE OR IN MEDICAL SCHOOL

“Do. Not. Move.” There will be many defining moments during my time in medical school. This instance was one of those moments. I had the opportunity to shadow a world renown cardiac surgeon and work one-on-one with his staffed fellow as one of my selectives. Selectives The Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine explains, “As …

Holidays during medical school can be rough. As hard as it was being away from family, we found sweet moments we could only have at this stage in life.

THE HOLIDAYS DURING YEAR ONE OF MEDICAL SCHOOL

The holidays during medical school can be rough. This was the first year we didn’t spend any of the holidays with family. Being 1,121 miles from my hometown and 611 miles from Blade’s hometown, I knew juggling travel with a dog and a baby and a med student around the holidays would be difficult. Not …

THE WOMAN IN THE RED LIPSTICK

For the first time in a while, I felt blatantly and openly judged by a complete stranger. I wanted to cry and give the woman in the red lipstick a piece of my mind. But I was in public at the grocery store. Instead, I quietly ignored her and quickly went to grab the frozen …

DOS AND DON’TS FOR A MEDICAL SCHOOL INTERVIEW

Don’t feel like you have to connect everything to medicine. Do find a host to decrease expenses. Don’t dress flashy. Do send a “thank you” email. Don’t be afraid to gather your thoughts. Do smile! This is a continuation of my previous Q&A with Mayo med students. (If you haven’t checked out that post yet, …