If you’re someone hoping do a PhD or MD-PhD, then research is absolutely necessary… but in the past, I’ve had some students ask me how to even get started. In this blog post, I’ll be sharing three different ways people find research opportunities. I will mostly focus on biomedical type research (i.e. neuroscience, cell biology, informatics, clinical research, public health research, etc.) because that is…
As the cycle goes on I will be sharing some of my interview advice for med school–if you have any suggestions on what questions I should break down, or any questions you’d want me to address, leave me a comment and I will take a stab at it. :) Today I wanted to talk about what is sometimes the last question during your interview–“is there…
I took STEP 1 back in February 2023, and after the exam, I jotted some notes down on my overall experience, lessons learned, and advice. I think at the time I was hesitant about posting STEP 1 related content before results were released, but that’s not a concern anymore now in July 2023 (I passed, yay :)). Anyway here are my thoughts on what to…
I came across this Reddit post today: My PI is moving to a different university across the country and has invited me to come with him. The plan is for him to move in a year from now, which is after I would be starting my Ph.D. I am currently starting MS2 and have only done lab rotations (and lab work throughout the year) in his lab….
For those who are new here, my name is Cindy, and I’m a third year MD-PhD student currently in the PhD phase (doing my PhD in biomedical informatics!). Today I want to share how I got to this path–maybe it helps some of you, and maybe people are just curious :) A little bit of a background, I majored in statistics in undergrad. I was…
I know it is still really early in the cycle since secondary essays have just gone out, but I wanted to share some advice on preparing for interviews. It’s important to start thinking about this early (especially if you have the bandwidth for it–I know it’s not always possible!). It can move fast–during my cycle, I received my first interview invite in August and the…