The Rotation

May 31, 2024

For most medical students, the academic year has ended and you are looking forward to a well-deserved summer break....

Student Focus

The Profound Impact of Mindfulness on Mental Health

May 7, 2024

As we embark on the journey of May as Mental Health Month, we find ourselves reflecting on the profound impact that...

Medical Education

Announcing the New ClubMedEd!

April 9, 2024

We know the struggle is real. From the seemingly endless study sessions to the grind of clinical rotations, the road to...

Best practices

Striking a Balance: Studying for Medical School Exams vs. Mastering the Material for Real-World Application

December 15, 2023

Step, Shelf, COMLEX, USMLE, EOR — we get it: you wanna pass the test. It’s a tightrope to walk. Of course, you want to...

Dr. Kat's Declassified Holiday Survival Guide - Med School Edition

Best practices

Dr. Kat’s Declassified Med School Survival Guide: Navigating the Holidays Like a Pro

Michele Toussaint, EdD, MS, PA-C, AACC

December 12, 2023

Hey there, medical students! The holidays are upon us, and while most people are decking the halls and sipping on hot...

Best practices

The Evolution of the PA Profession: A Legacy Born from Army Medics

October 10, 2023

In the vast landscape of healthcare professions, the role of the PA has emerged as a critical component in delivering...

The Gamechanger Series

Yating Teng, PhD, MS — How OnlineMedEd Supports Health Professions Educators

Yating Teng, PhD, MS

July 3, 2023

Welcome to the OME Gamechanger Series. The overarching goal of this series is to highlight an important aspect of...

Medical Education

5 Ways to Streamline Clinical Preceptorship with OnlineMedEd

Stephen DeMeo, DO, MEd

June 20, 2023

Clinical rotations are a vital part of experiential learning during medical education, providing students with the...

Student Focus

Tips for Writing a Great Personal Statement for Residency Applications

Stephen DeMeo, DO, MEd

May 16, 2023

Preparing a personal statement for residency applications is a tricky matter for many medical students. Students often...

Medical Education

Announcing OnlineMedEd’s 3rd Annual Scholarship for Future Black Physicians

Maggie Hadinger, EdD, MS, ACC

May 5, 2023

We are committed to making an impact on the world of medicine.

Medical Education

A Journey to Online Medical Education: Meet our Vice President of Medical Education

Stephen DeMeo, DO, MEd

April 10, 2023

Welcome to the OME Gamechanger Series. The overarching goal of this series is to highlight an important aspect of...

Medical Education

Courtney Cross, PhD — How OnlineMedEd Supports Best Practices in Medical Education

Courtney Cross, PhD

April 10, 2023

Welcome to the OME Gamechanger Series. The overarching goal of this series is to highlight an important aspect of...

Medical Education

Maggie Hadinger, EdD, MS, ACC — How OnlineMedEd is Supporting Learners and Institutions “Outside the Box”

February 24, 2023

Welcome to the OME Gamechanger Series. The overarching goal of this series is to highlight an important aspect of...

Medical Education

Neal Weber, MSEd — How OnlineMedEd is Changing the Game in Curriculum Instruction

Neal Weber, MSEd

February 13, 2023

Welcome to the OME Gamechanger Series. The overarching goal of this series is to highlight an important aspect of...

Medical Education

Danelle Guillory, MD, PhD, MPA – How OnlineMedEd Can Be a Gamechanger in DEI

Danelle Guillory, MD, PhD, MPA

January 13, 2023

Welcome to the OME Gamechanger Series. The overarching goal of this series is to highlight an important aspect of...

Continuing Education

A Pound of Cure: Revisiting Food as Medicine through a 21st Century Lens

Kelly M. Adams, MPH, RDN and Anne Gravel Sullivan, PhD

September 30, 2022

Benjamin Franklin may have been talking about house fires in his famous proverb, “an ounce of prevention is worth a...

Medical Education

Michele Toussaint, EdD, MS, PA-C, AACC – Why I Joined OnlineMedEd

Michele Toussaint, EdD, MS, PA-C, AACC

September 12, 2022

I have been a certified PA for over 20 years, have worked in PA education for nearly 10 years and obtained an EdD in...

Medical Education

Meet Cedric Mutebi: Winner Of OnlineMedEd’s Future Black Physicians Scholarship

August 9, 2022

A good friend once told Detrioit’s Cedric Mutebi that “our bodies see inequities before our minds do.” The words...

General

Detroit’s Cedric Mutebi Receives OnlineMedEd’s Future Black Physicians Scholarship

July 19, 2022

Detroit’s Cedric Mutebi has been named the second recipient of OnlineMedEd’s Scholarship for Future Black Physicians.

General

Why Narrative Medicine Matters

Allison Coffelt

May 24, 2022

The patient and the clinician sit together in the small exam room, or look into the cameras of their respective...

General

OnlineMedEd’s Scholarship for Future Black Physicians Returns

May 18, 2022

In 2020, OnlineMedEd launched its Scholarship for Future Black Physicians. Worth $12,000, the scholarship is a...

A stack of textbooks with a stethoscope on top

Student Focus

Med School, Later On: The Marie Elwood Story

March 24, 2022

Marie Elwood remembers the night before her med school pulmonology and gas exchange test well. It was spent sleepless...

A hand on a vehicle window touching the hand of a child on the other side of the vehicle window

General

Why War in Ukraine Might Mean Fewer Doctors in India

March 8, 2022

Over the last two weeks, the world has watched in shock as Russian military forces invaded Ukraine. The human...

History

‘The Whole Hung Up’: Why Avenging Physicians Burned Down Virginia’s First Med School

January 7, 2022

It was springtime in the Shenandoah Valley when Virginia’s first medical school went up in flames. Ordered by a former...

General

The Rotation’s Most Popular Stories in 2021

December 22, 2021

This week, The Rotation blew out a candle, celebrating its one-year birthday on December 20. For most med students...

General

Before Daylight: The State of American Medical Student Loan Debt

December 15, 2021

Next month, a relief measure triggered early in the pandemic by the United States government will once again impact the...

A black and white photograph of Dr. A.T. Still and Mrs. Annie Morris

Featured

A Brief History of Osteopathic Medicine

December 1, 2021

Few decades in American history have provided a legacy as long or as important as that of the 1860s. Claiming more than...

Featured

Meet Dr. Jeremy Polman

November 15, 2021

For more than 71,000 registered OnlineMedEd users studying to be DOs, osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) comes...

Featured

How OnlineMedEd Changed Its Approach to OMM

October 25, 2021

Through the learning of osteopathic manipulative medicine, DO students have been attempting to understand how to get...

Featured

DOs, MDs, and Misconceptions

October 19, 2021

Last month, comedian Hasan Minhaj told Jimmy Fallon and Tonight Show fans about a recent interaction with an old friend...

COVID-19

American Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Their History, And The Covid-19 Stress Test

October 13, 2021

To imagine the pressure felt in American intensive care units over the course of the pandemic, it is perhaps helpful to...

Healthcare Policy

‘We’re Losing Every Aspect of Medicine’: The Past, Present, and Future of Health Care in Afghanistan

September 12, 2021

Ansar Wali clearly remembers the moment he knew he wanted to be a physician. He was a child, sitting outside a health...

COVID-19

Lockdown Blues: How Covid’s Delta Variant Popped New Zealand’s Pandemic Bubble

August 30, 2021

Two weeks ago, the headlines out of New Zealand were as simple as they were strange. After a single positive case of...

Guest Posts

Five Lessons From The First Five Weeks of Medical Residency

Stacy Haponyuk

August 6, 2021

Every doctor has been through the exhaustion of intern year. Now it’s our turn. The thing is, when you’re in your final...

General

The Slow, Harmful Growth of Addiction Medicine in America

July 23, 2021

In 2020, 377,883 Americans died due to complications from Covid-19, victims of a pandemic that has claimed more than...

Racial Injustice

History, Race, Time, and the Father of Gynecology

July 7, 2021

On April 17, 2018, the statue of J. Marion Sims was pulled down for a second time in New York City. Split between...

Featured

No Other Way Forward: The Adam B. Hill Story

June 28, 2021

or Adam B. Hill, the way forward was first revealed on a basketball court. It came with a broken leg.

Featured

Kicking Out: From the Springboard to the E.D.

June 8, 2021

t doesn’t matter who you are: the true ‘light bulb’ moments in life can strike at any time, anywhere.

Student Focus

Back To Where It Began: A Catch Up With Chris McNeil

May 29, 2021

Sometimes it is hard to know whether time anchors you to a place, or whether it’s the other way around. Six years ago,...

Student Focus

In Defense of Diet: Part I

May 18, 2021

The nutritional claims we see reported in popular media often seem contradictory. We learn that coffee is bad for you....

COVID-19

‘There Is No More Space Here’: Untangling the Chaotic Threads of India’s Covid-19 Crisis

May 5, 2021

Amongst the enduring images taken during the Covid-19 global pandemic, few may ultimately match the simple,...

match day

Heartbreak and Hope: International Medical Graduates, and the Match Day Rollercoaster

March 25, 2021

Until last week, Muhammad Qureshi’s dream of becoming a practising American doctor was on track. An American...

History

The Wild True Story of the First Match Day, And Its Hero: A Maverick Ex-Carrier Pilot From New Orleans

March 19, 2021

Today tens of thousands of medical graduates across the United States will receive an email informing them of the...

General

What Do America’s Application Fever, Great Residency Algorithm, And Cardi B’s Birth Year Have In Common? Match Day.

March 16, 2021

Though the majority of this year’s medical residency applicants weren’t even alive in 1992, it is emerging as an...

Hands holding VR controllers in a hospital room

Medical Education

Ready, Physician One: Medical Gaming, And Its Potential Impact on the Med School Experience

March 11, 2021

When Eric Gantwerker was growing up in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s, he and older brother Brian were passionate video...

Medical Education

Med School Down Under: Becoming a Doctor in Australia and New Zealand

Naomi Arnold

February 26, 2021

Medical education was in the news in Australia recently, with more than 1000 international med students allowed through...

A medical illustration of cardiac structure.

Drawing Blood

Ask the Artists: Why Did You Become A Medical Illustrator?

February 19, 2021

How many artistically inclined young people are pushed into STEM-centric careers because their knack for art was not...

General

The Demise Of The COMLEX Level 2 PE—And An Era In Standardized Testing—For Aspiring American Doctors

February 12, 2021

What’s the old saying about waiting for a bus for hours? I’ve heard two often come at once. Yesterday, the National...

Guest Posts

Food as Medicine: Filling the Gaps in Medical Education

Kelly Adams, MPH, RDN

February 8, 2021

Problem: patients look to health professionals for sound nutrition advice, but most health professionals are not...

Europe

The ‘Paradigm’ Shift of Portugal’s New Residency Exam, And How Students Are Preparing For It

February 7, 2021

Though study materials, highlighter pens, and empty coffee cups cover the table, medical students around the world are...

Guest Posts

Why Nutrition is An Essential Part of Medical Education

Kelly Adams, MPH, RDN

February 1, 2021

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This famous quote, attributed—perhaps mistakenly—to Hippocrates,...

Medical Education

The End of the USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills Exam, And What It Means For American Medical Education

January 29, 2021

Early last March, Elif Yakut, a 29-year-old medical graduate from Turkey, traveled to Philadelphia to complete her...

COVID-19

‘Every Step Forward’: The Role of Med Students in the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

January 22, 2021

There are more than 120,000 medical students in the United States. Like most others studying medicine around the world,...

Drawing Blood

The History of Medical Illustrations: Part II – The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment

January 15, 2021

In the first part of this series, we explored how, prior to the 14th century, art and science were inextricably linked...

COVID-19

The Struggles, and Promise, of America’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

January 13, 2021

Like more than 222,000 of her fellow Americans, a 75-year-old lung cancer survivor from New Jersey tested positive for...

General

High Five: The Best of The Rotation in 2020

December 29, 2021

Life as a med student is not an easy one. The workload is unrelenting, with hours required to pack it all in always...

COVID-19

A Rocky Rollout: COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution in America

December 22, 2020

Last Monday, a 52-year-old woman from New York unrolled her left sleeve, and entered the history books. A nurse at Long...

Drawing Blood

Drawing Blood: The Anatomy of a Good Medical Illustration

December 15, 2020

It seems obvious that the purpose of medical illustrations is to facilitate understanding of anatomy and biological...

General

Med School Applications Are Up, But What Does That Mean for American Medicine?

December 12, 2020

A date firmly etched in history, September 11, 2001 was a moment that led many young Americans to reconsider the...

Featured

Jonny, on the Spot: The New Face of Space Medicine

December 10, 2020

Test pilots, engineers, and scientists can do a lot, but to truly understand the human body in space, you’ve got to...

COVID-19

Pandemic on the Plains: The COVID-19 Crisis in North and South Dakota

December 5, 2020

Earlier this week, North Dakota’s Kailee Leingang spoke to Slate about being a contact tracer in a state where the...

History

‘A Wound of the Heart’: Remembering Pioneering Black Surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

November 25, 2020

Featuring enduring hits like ‘Isn’t She Lovely,’ ‘Sir Duke,’ and ‘As,’ a compelling case could be made that Stevie...

Drawing Blood

The History of Medical Illustrations: Part I – Prehistory to the Byzantine Empire

November 21, 2020

In light of how much has changed since the dawn of human history, it’s easy to overlook how similar we are to our...

COVID-19

Hitting the Hay: Covid-19, and Rural Health in America

November 19, 2020

Located on the state border with southern New Mexico, Loving County lies deep in the kind of West Texas Cormac McCarthy...

Student Focus

Introducing Chris McNeil: Winner of OnlineMedEd’s Scholarship for Future Black Physicians

November 13, 2020

For Chris McNeil, there has always been the sound of a low rumbling on the horizon. Growing up in Lawton, Oklahoma, it...

COVID-19

“A Real Reason to Hope”: The Pfizer News, And Overall Covid-19 Vaccine Update

November 11, 2020

Only under the most intense heat and pressure do carbon atoms crystallize. Only then are diamonds formed. From a public...

Drawing Blood

Introducing Drawing Blood: A Series on Medical Illustrations

November 6, 2020

The pursuits of art and science are often delegated to two different hemispheres of the brain. In our increasingly...

Healthcare Policy

What’s At Stake: The Election, And Potential Changes in American Healthcare Policy

October 31, 2020

Like few others in living memory, 2020 has been a year defined by thinking about health, access to quality healthcare,...

History

“The World of a Nightmare”: The Rarely Retold Med Student Mercy Mission to a Nazi Concentration Camp

October 22, 2020

It was early April 1945 when the call went out for student volunteers at London’s medical schools. Though World War II...

Student Focus

Diary of a Med Student: Q&A With Author Ajay Sharma

October 15, 2020

A couple of years ago, two med students—and roommates—at the University of California, Irvine starting coming back from...

Student Focus

Special Preview: Three Chapters from ‘Diary of a Med Student’

October 12, 2020

Though most students have a general idea of how their medical school journey may unfold, it is virtually impossible to...

Student Focus

Nothing in the Tank: Burnout at Med School

October 8, 2020

In race car driving, running or any other sport where sustained energy is required, a simple philosophy underpins any,...

COVID-19

All The President’s Pandemics: Wilson, Trump, and How History Repeats

October 3, 2020

Since the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the United States on January 20, more than 7.3 million Americans...

History

Escaping Nazis, Changing History: The Story Behind the Notorious Krebs Cycle

October 1, 2020

Ask any first year med student if they remember the Krebs cycle and chances are you’ll receive a long groan in reply....

History

Hard to Berne: The Tragic Story of Australia’s First Female Med Student

September 24, 2020

Centered around a country pub and a hardy community of sheep and cattle farmers, Trundle, New South Wales is a near...

History

The Forgotten History of the 1968 ‘Hong Kong Flu’ Pandemic

September 16, 2020

In late 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were preparing to be the first humans to leave...

COVID-19

Pandemic Without Peaks: Africa’s Unexpected COVID-19 Experience

September 10, 2020

Though Africa’s first COVID-19 case appeared in Egypt on February 14, it didn’t really start making noise around the...

History

The Wild, Rarely Told Story of the Discovery of Insulin

September 4, 2020

Before 1922, most observations of diabetes in medical history didn’t stretch much further than the acknowledgement of a...

History

The Montana Farm Boy Who Became King of Vaccines: Remembering Dr. Maurice Hilleman

September 1, 2020

A former bawdy frontier town located in Great Plains cattle country, Miles City, Montana seems an unlikely place for...

General

Creatures of Habit: Setting Healthy Routines For Med School Success

August 31, 2020

By now, you’ve probably already learnt that medical school is tough – and will probably be one of the toughest things...

COVID-19

Why New England’s COVID-19 Response Has Been America’s Best

August 28, 2020

As of today, more than 180,000 Americans have died due to COVID-19. An estimated 5.8 million in the United States have...

History

Soft Power Through Medicine: The Complicated History of Project HOPE

August 26, 2020

For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, their introduction to ‘hands-on’ American medical care came in...

General

Four Medical Advancements From The Last Decade That Are Revolutionizing Health Care

August 21, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating both the global news cycle and inter-cultural zeitgeist, it is easy to forget...

COVID-19

Med School in the COVID-19 Era: What To Expect When Classes And Clerkships Restart

August 13, 2020

For generations of American doctors-in-training, August has always marked a crucial apex in the greater medical school...

History

How George Washington’s Smallpox ‘Proto-Vaccine’ Helped Save The Early United States

August 11, 2020

Viewed through the prism of history, those living in North America in the 1770s lived through a time of great change. A...

Racial Injustice

‘Many Years To Overcome’: A Brief History of Native American Health Care Disparities

August 7, 2020

On March 6, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a special address to the United States Congress on the plight...

History

‘Why Did You Do This To Me?’: Medical Perspectives on the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

August 4, 2020

Throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, there were few hospitals in Japan quite like Hiroshima’s Shima Hospital....

History

Twenty Years Before Sweeping Health Funding Cuts, An Anti-Medicare Vinyl Gave President Reagan His Political Start

July 30, 2020

They’d be hard to track down, but somewhere out in the United States right now are thousands of vinyl records...

COVID-19

Beyond COVID-19: Global Diseases That Could Have a Vaccine by 2030

July 28, 2020

When English physician Edward Jenner inoculated the eight-year-old son of his gardener against smallpox in 1796, he...

Racial Injustice

The Needle and the Damage Done: Minority Access to Vaccines in America

July 25, 2020

Two weeks ago, the New York Times published an in-depth story on the distribution of a future COVID-19 vaccine, and how...

Student Focus

From the Rink to the Ward: Ex-Olympic Figure Skating Hopeful Makes Jump To Medicine

July 24, 2020

Six years ago, Alexandra Kamieniecki’s Olympic dreams were in tatters. A former Polish figure skating national...

Student Focus

Black Clouds: Why Med Students and New Doctors Struggle with Mental Health

July 21, 2020

Those who enter medical school are rarely in any doubt.

COVID-19

Pots, Pans & Vaccine Trials: Brazil’s COVID-19 Response, And Its Role in Finding a Cure

July 18, 2020

For more than a week of warm mid-March evenings, the sound of clanging pots and pans echoed out across São Paulo and...

History

Heart and Soul: Remembering Paul Dudley White, America’s ‘Dr. Cardiology’

July 16, 2020

Snaking up and down nearly 23 miles of Boston’s Charles River is a paved bike path well-known to the city’s cyclists....

Racial Injustice

A Malignant Rotation: The Presence of Racism at Medical School

July 14, 2020

In a powerful personal essay for STAT, Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu recalled the time she tried to speak up against...

COVID-19

Stranded in Paradise: How New Zealand Beat COVID-19

July 10, 2020

This weekend, the Auckland Blues play the Canterbury Crusaders at Christchurch’s Rugby League Park. A renewal of New...

COVID-19

COVID-19 Moon Shot: Looking at the Current State of Coronavirus Vaccine Efforts

July 4, 2020

On July 21, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. An extraordinary...

Racial Injustice

Under Barnum’s Knife: The Shocking Public Autopsy of Joice Heth

July 2, 2020

He was a true salesman, bombastic in the pitch. To get ahead, he’d traffic in lies, and exaggeration. He manipulated...

Racial Injustice

Starting With Kidneys, Racial Disparities in Organ Donation Persist

July 1, 2020

Every ten minutes, another person joins the American national organ transplant waiting list. Every year, around 8000...

Student Focus

Meet Carl Black: The Philly PA’s Podcast Hopes for Increasing Medicine’s Minority Voices