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A good friend once told Detrioit’s Cedric Mutebi that “our bodies see inequities before our minds do.” The words...
Detroit’s Cedric Mutebi has been named the second recipient of OnlineMedEd’s Scholarship for Future Black Physicians.
Marie Elwood remembers the night before her med school pulmonology and gas exchange test well. It was spent sleepless...
Over the last two weeks, the world has watched in shock as Russian military forces invaded Ukraine. The human...
It was springtime in the Shenandoah Valley when Virginia’s first medical school went up in flames. Ordered by a former...
This week, The Rotation blew out a candle, celebrating its one-year birthday on December 20. For most med students...
Next month, a relief measure triggered early in the pandemic by the United States government will once again impact the...
Few decades in American history have provided a legacy as long or as important as that of the 1860s. Claiming more than...
Last month, comedian Hasan Minhaj told Jimmy Fallon and Tonight Show fans about a recent interaction with an old friend...
To imagine the pressure felt in American intensive care units over the course of the pandemic, it is perhaps helpful to...
‘We’re Losing Every Aspect of Medicine’: The Past, Present, and Future of Health Care in Afghanistan
Ansar Wali clearly remembers the moment he knew he wanted to be a physician. He was a child, sitting outside a health...
Two weeks ago, the headlines out of New Zealand were as simple as they were strange. After a single positive case of...
In 2020, 377,883 Americans died due to complications from Covid-19, victims of a pandemic that has claimed more than...
On April 17, 2018, the statue of J. Marion Sims was pulled down for a second time in New York City. Split between...
or Adam B. Hill, the way forward was first revealed on a basketball court. It came with a broken leg.
t doesn’t matter who you are: the true ‘light bulb’ moments in life can strike at any time, anywhere.
Sometimes it is hard to know whether time anchors you to a place, or whether it’s the other way around. Six years ago,...
Amongst the enduring images taken during the Covid-19 global pandemic, few may ultimately match the simple,...
Until last week, Muhammad Qureshi’s dream of becoming a practising American doctor was on track. An American...
Today tens of thousands of medical graduates across the United States will receive an email informing them of the...
Though the majority of this year’s medical residency applicants weren’t even alive in 1992, it is emerging as an...
When Eric Gantwerker was growing up in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s, he and older brother Brian were passionate video...
The Demise Of The COMLEX Level 2 PE—And An Era In Standardized Testing—For Aspiring American Doctors
What’s the old saying about waiting for a bus for hours? I’ve heard two often come at once. Yesterday, the National...
Though study materials, highlighter pens, and empty coffee cups cover the table, medical students around the world are...
Early last March, Elif Yakut, a 29-year-old medical graduate from Turkey, traveled to Philadelphia to complete her...
There are more than 120,000 medical students in the United States. Like most others studying medicine around the world,...
Like more than 222,000 of her fellow Americans, a 75-year-old lung cancer survivor from New Jersey tested positive for...
Last Monday, a 52-year-old woman from New York unrolled her left sleeve, and entered the history books. A nurse at Long...
A date firmly etched in history, September 11, 2001 was a moment that led many young Americans to reconsider the...
Test pilots, engineers, and scientists can do a lot, but to truly understand the human body in space, you’ve got to...
Earlier this week, North Dakota’s Kailee Leingang spoke to Slate about being a contact tracer in a state where the...
Featuring enduring hits like ‘Isn’t She Lovely,’ ‘Sir Duke,’ and ‘As,’ a compelling case could be made that Stevie...
Located on the state border with southern New Mexico, Loving County lies deep in the kind of West Texas Cormac McCarthy...
For Chris McNeil, there has always been the sound of a low rumbling on the horizon. Growing up in Lawton, Oklahoma, it...
Only under the most intense heat and pressure do carbon atoms crystallize. Only then are diamonds formed. From a public...
Like few others in living memory, 2020 has been a year defined by thinking about health, access to quality healthcare,...
“The World of a Nightmare”: The Rarely Retold Med Student Mercy Mission to a Nazi Concentration Camp
It was early April 1945 when the call went out for student volunteers at London’s medical schools. Though World War II...
A couple of years ago, two med students—and roommates—at the University of California, Irvine starting coming back from...
In race car driving, running or any other sport where sustained energy is required, a simple philosophy underpins any,...
Since the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the United States on January 20, more than 7.3 million Americans...
Ask any first year med student if they remember the Krebs cycle and chances are you’ll receive a long groan in reply....
Centered around a country pub and a hardy community of sheep and cattle farmers, Trundle, New South Wales is a near...
In late 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were preparing to be the first humans to leave...
Though Africa’s first COVID-19 case appeared in Egypt on February 14, it didn’t really start making noise around the...
Before 1922, most observations of diabetes in medical history didn’t stretch much further than the acknowledgement of a...
A former bawdy frontier town located in Great Plains cattle country, Miles City, Montana seems an unlikely place for...
As of today, more than 180,000 Americans have died due to COVID-19. An estimated 5.8 million in the United States have...
For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, their introduction to ‘hands-on’ American medical care came in...
For generations of American doctors-in-training, August has always marked a crucial apex in the greater medical school...
Viewed through the prism of history, those living in North America in the 1770s lived through a time of great change. A...
On March 6, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a special address to the United States Congress on the plight...
Throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, there were few hospitals in Japan quite like Hiroshima’s Shima Hospital....
They’d be hard to track down, but somewhere out in the United States right now are thousands of vinyl records...
Two weeks ago, the New York Times published an in-depth story on the distribution of a future COVID-19 vaccine, and how...
Six years ago, Alexandra Kamieniecki’s Olympic dreams were in tatters. A former Polish figure skating national...
For more than a week of warm mid-March evenings, the sound of clanging pots and pans echoed out across São Paulo and...
Snaking up and down nearly 23 miles of Boston’s Charles River is a paved bike path well-known to the city’s cyclists....
In a powerful personal essay for STAT, Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu recalled the time she tried to speak up against...
This weekend, the Auckland Blues play the Canterbury Crusaders at Christchurch’s Rugby League Park. A renewal of New...
On July 21, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. An extraordinary...
He was a true salesman, bombastic in the pitch. To get ahead, he’d traffic in lies, and exaggeration. He manipulated...
Every ten minutes, another person joins the American national organ transplant waiting list. Every year, around 8000...
Like tens of thousands of his fellow Philadelphians, Carl Black took to the streets of his hometown following the...
The news broke on Tuesday, July 25 1972 thanks to a special Associated Press report for the Washington Star. By the...
In the long, painful fight against racial injustice in the United States, July 10, 2008 is a date taught in few schools...
If life was her childhood dream, right now, Houston’s Sandra Coker would be one of the best basketball players in the...
To the early members of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), the summer of 1964 might have had a similar...
In the modern media era, it is virtually impossible to imagine how much surgery on a sitting President would dominate...
On September 11, 1942, one hundred and twenty feet below the surface of the South China Sea, one of the most...
As well as prompting an incredible response from the medical field, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically...
While still scarcer than men, a female surgeon is now a common sight in the American military’s operating theaters. A...
Like everywhere else in the world, when the COVID-19 crisis struck Ireland, its medical community responded with a...
Despite an extensive range of variables, for hundreds of years, medical practitioners and researchers have been able to...
On May 25 1973, a Saturn IB rocket roared into the sky above Florida’s legendary Cape Canaveral. Alongside two other...
This summer, Tara E. will fulfill her dream, becoming a family care doctor in her home state of Michigan. “Number one,...
As of May 1, around 3.25 million people worldwide have been infected by the current novel coronavirus. While around one...
In 1956, a 20-year-old pre-med student from Boston made American figure skating history in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Over two public lectures in Philadelphia in late May 1765, a 29-year-old European-educated ex-army surgeon delivered a...