69: Palliative Care - There is Always Somethi...

(00:00) — Welcome and setup: Dr. Gray frames a conversation about medicine, premed, and medical school.(00:38) — Puerto Rico at the center: Alyssa names her roots and early love of learning from teacher parents.(02:26) — A stroke changes everything: Her father's hospitalization t ...  Show more

(00:00) — The first spark: Dr. Gray asks when medicine became real.(01:34) — Military plans, cold feet, and choosing community college: He skips the Air Force and starts at McDonald's while exploring options.(02:50) — Hospital volunteering clicks: Serving patients water and meals ...  Show more

If you’re like most nursing students, you’re a high-achieving individual with big goals and a dedication to doing your absolute best. Chances are, you were a star student in your prereqs, but in nursing school, you’re surrounded by other star students who are just as dedicated an ...  Show more

Students ask all the time about tips for being successful in nursing school. And while you can view a wide variety of articles on the Straight A Nursing Student website or here on the podcast, I wanted to cover my top 10 tips for new students all in one spot. A big THANK YOU to o ...  Show more

If you’re at all like me then you LOVE a good checklist, which is why I created the ultimate new nursing student checklist so you’d know exactly what to do before school starts so you can be ahead of the game. Grab a copy of the new nursing student checklist. Want to take your ...  Show more

The topic of today's show is not a specialty, but rather a new podcast that I am very excited to help introduce to the world called All Access: Med School Admissions, and the person here to tell us about it is its creator and host, Christian Essman, the Director of Admissions at ...  Show more