4
Mar
by Jeremy DeFoe
During my undergraduate work I was very involved in both the community and the university — it was what made life enjoyable. I thought coming to medical school would all but put an end to most of those activities due to time constraints and limitations on activities/service events available. I also figured that any service events would most likely be medically-oriented (which is by no means a problem, but everyone likes a little diversity). I could not have been more incorrect in my assumptions.
During the few months I have been a student at DMU, I have had the chance to participate in a wide range of extra-curricular activities and an even more broad range of community service events.
There are organizations at DMU for every walk of life. Of course you have your medicine- and college-based organizations such as the surgery club (SOSA), the internal medicine club (SOIMA), the military medicine club and a variety of others for D.O.s, D.P.M.s, Pas and members of the College of Health Sciences. In addition there are specialty organizations just like there was in undergraduate, in addition to several intramural sports open to all students.
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5
Dec
by Jeremy DeFoe
Recently I have been talking with some of my senior undergraduate friends about the medical school application process. A lot of them have submitted through AACOMAS and/or AMCAS and are starting to fill out the secondary forms and schedule interviews. As a veteran of that process, they have come to me asking for advice about what to. To be honest, that kind of advice is rather cursory. The questions I prefer to answer are those regarding taking a year or two off before medical school.
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14
Nov
by Jeremy DeFoe
It’s hard to believe, but I have already been a medical student for three months (that is 1/16 of my med school career if anyone was wondering). In the beginning of August we arrived on campus with our orientation schedules in hand, anxiously awaiting what was to come. At that moment, few of us had any idea exactly “what” was, only that it was rumored to be difficult and require hours and hours of studying.
The first week flew by and we started with biochemistry on Monday morning at 8 a.m. I can honestly say the transition was a bit rough, but though it has only been three months, it has already been very rewarding. In only three months I have already had a behavioral medicine standardized patient encounter in which I was asked to diagnose a patient’s readiness to change an unhealthy habit. It was absolutely terrifying to speak with a patient in an exam room for the first time, but what I learned in 15 minutes of interviewing an actual person is worth more than any amount of class time.
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