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Tips and tricks to travel safely and stay healthy this spring break

Whether you are traveling for spring break by car, plane, or boat, staying healthy while doing so is important.

Jasmin Cheairs  | Mar 19, 2025

Summer is here! MS1 Recap #2

Here’s a post recapping the second semester MS1 classes! I didn’t include info about the OSCE final (except for a picture), because it was pretty

Roshini Selladurai

Important MS1: An oxymoron?

It’s been a week and a day since we finished our first year of med school. Pretty crazy! As my final post for the semester

Roshini Selladurai

Engagements, Finals and Step 1!

Hey Everyone, Sorry for my absence. With the end of the school year, finals and Step 1 looming in the next 2 weeks I will

A Day in the Clinic

At the end of their 2nd year of medical school, MD/PhD students at IUSM put their medical education on hold for 2-4 years and do

Stefan Tarnawsky

Laugh it out

Most people are aware that med school is stressful. You’re expected to learn an enormous amount of material in a shockingly small amount of time (especially

Roshini Selladurai

Spring Reflections: Medicine & Garlic

In my first week at the IU School of Medicine, back in August 2011, I took part in one of the school’s most beautiful traditions.

Stefan Tarnawsky

We’re not merely “surviving”, a different perspective.

Short post today because we’re in the beginning of exam week: Often times medical students feel like they’re merely “surviving” from day to day, test

Get out of the bubble

Sometimes life can feel like a bubble. Everything you’re focused on is within the bubble, and everything else fades away. Obviously, you and I both

Roshini Selladurai

Focal/Segmental Glumerulosclerosis… and so much more!

Sound interesting enough?! Actually, it is. I often find a way to remember diseases and processes in a manner that I can relate to… this

Applied Mendelian Statistics!

In December I wrote how my grad courses taught me skills that I could apply directly to my research. This week, I took advantage of

Stefan Tarnawsky