Video: How to Interview for Medical School

The videos below were created by Nova Southeastern University - College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) to help medical school applicants prepare for their interview at any medical school.


How to Interview for Medical School Part 1


How to Interview for Medical School Part 2

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How to Interview for Medical School: The three A's. ARRIVE on time; your APPEARANCE; your ATTITUDE. It's the biggest day of your working life; do it RIGHT. Prepare.

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Touching your nose, mouth, or eyes with your unwashed hand gives you a 31% chance at getting sick with the flu. Having a person sick with the flu cough directly into your face gives you more than a 50% chance of getting sick. Inhaling the tiny particles in the air from a flu-infected person's cough or sneeze gives you a 17% chance of infection http://bit.ly/1YU9E

Medical Editors Push for Ghostwriting Crackdown - called "ghostbusting" http://bit.ly/4hmUmb

A 50-year-old smoker with high blood pressure and high cholesterol can expect to die a decade earlier. 3 major risk factors (smoking, HTN, HLP) recorded on a single occasion in middle aged men = 10 years shorter life http://bit.ly/5o2HM

Inhaled Utensil Removed From the Lung of a Patient. The source: Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers http://bit.ly/1KTfk4

Caring for aging parents can quickly put the savings of adult children in jeopardy. NYT http://bit.ly/2sjirn

Farm waste is the biggest polluter of American rivers and is largely unregulated http://bit.ly/3I8NZF

Photos of boxers before and after fight http://bit.ly/2JyATN

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RT @jeffjarvis chronicles his prostate cancer surgery and encounter with the big robot: http://bit.ly/ojyi5

Doctors and dictation errors: http://bit.ly/3l8MxN

Dr. Charles Analyzes the Hippocratic Oath http://bit.ly/j2TOj - See who's most famous doctor in history of medicine http://bit.ly/363YDB

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Misleading Headline and Story on Anxiety and Dementia

"Staying Calm 'Prevents Dementia," is the headline on a BBC article today. Seems like an innocuous headline but in fact it is both wrong and misleading.As a group, older people who scored as "calm and relaxed" in their answers to a survey had a 50% lower risk of developing dementia over the next six years, the BBC reported. (There's another no-no: giving a relative risk figure without giving the

Teaching Journalism Ethics

Starting in May 2009, I'll be teaching a class in journalism ethics at New York University as part of the Science Health and Environment Reporting program. I've already selected several case studies--particularly with respect to conflict of interest in medical reporting. And I have lined up a media lawyer to come talk to the class about libel and other legal issues.Now I need a few good cases

How Will New Medicare Rule Play Out?

Medicare's new policy not to pay for 10 "reasonably preventable" medical mistakes seems good in theory. I'll be interested to hear from readers how the new rule, which goes into effect today, works in practice.

Press Fails to Say Who Funds Drug Studies

The news media often fail to report when a drug study has been funded by pharmaceutical companies, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Press accounts often use brand names instead of generic names when talking about medications.The first problem is a bigger issue than the second because it speaks to a larger point about conflicts of interest. (Using generics