October 2007
Medical Student Perspectives: Acing the Residency Interview
We all remember our medical school interview. Nothing quite compares to the horror of having your entire future hanging in the balance. Fortunately, the hard part is over. The interview process for residency is, with few exceptions, a much friendlier experience.
My Kind of Medicine: Real Lives of Practicing Internists: Michael Mignoli, MD, FACP
Every year, Dr. Michael Mignoli visits a different baseball park. So far, he has been to 16, roughly half in the country. Baseball has long been an interest of Dr. Mignoli’s, something he says most of his patients know. And it was baseball that he and one of his patients, an elderly man with congestive heart failure, talked about one evening in the hospital, as the man neared the end of his life.
Internal Medicine Interest Group of the Month: Drexel University
The Drexel Internal Medicine Interest Group (IMIG) has been an active organization at Drexel University for many years. Today it remains one of the largest and most successful groups at Drexel.
Winning Abstracts from the 2007 Medical Student Abstract Competition: Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (Pct): Mutations and Sequence Variants in the Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase (Uro-D) Gene in Sporadic Patients.
Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT), the most common disorder of heme biosynthesis, typically presents with characteristic light-induced blistering skin lesions.
Subspecialty Careers: Highlights about Careers in Internal Medicine: Adolescent Medicine
Adolescent medicine focuses on the physical, psychological, social, and sexual development of adolescents and young adults.
Advocacy Briefs: Economic Hardship Deferment at Risk: Contact Congress Now
The "College Cost Reduction and Access Act" (H.R. 2669) was signed by the President on September 27. Unfortunately, H.R. 2669 eliminates the economic hardship deferment qualification criterion that most medical residents rely upon to defer their student loan debts while completing residency training.
Match Day 2012: An Exciting Experience
Go behind the scenes at Match Day 2012 at The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and hear Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Chief of the Internal Medicine Division at Penn Medicine describe being part of the Match Day experience.
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