Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well and in the best of health mentally, emotionally, and physically. In less than one month, I will find out whether I have matched and to think that this journey is almost over is so crazy to me. Anyway, I was so nervous about residency interviews. This... Continue Reading →
Tips on Surviving Long Commutes As a (Medical) Student
Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well and in the best of health. Medical school is coming to an end 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 therefore I thought I should write about one of my biggest struggles during it which was ✨ commuting ✨ Whenever I tell people that my school is more than an hour away from... Continue Reading →
Medical School Update #9: Which Specialty Did I Choose?
Hello everyone I hope you are all doing well and in the best of health mentally, physically, and emotionally. Please keep our Palestinian brothers and sisters 🇵🇸 in your prayers. It breaks my heart what these beautiful people are going through but Allah (swt) is always with the oppressed people and justice will be theirs... Continue Reading →
My Tips and Advice for ERAS
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well and in the best of health physically, mentally, and emotionally. It's been a minute I know but so much has gone on. I am pretty much halfway through my fourth year of medical school which is so crazy to think about Subhanallah. I have done my... Continue Reading →
My Preparation For Step Two CK
For those who do not want to read all of this here is a TL;DR: What I did to Study Pre-dedicated Finish Uworld Get through OnlineMedEd (OME) with Whiteboard book Review questions using FA Step 2 CK (Not that great tbh) Take practice shelf NBME after each rotation ended (except Fam med since it was... Continue Reading →
Medical School Update #8: Third Year Is Officially Over
Y'all I cannot believe it. Third year is officially over and I have less than one year of medical school left to go! It honestly does not feel real. I've waited so long for this moment to finally come and it feels bittersweet. Why? Well...because third year really hit me with so many lessons, especially... Continue Reading →
Rotation Reviews: Family Medicine
Y'all this is my last Rotation Reviews post! I cannot believe it, time has definitely flown by! I have to pinch myself because it does not feel real tbh. But this is it. 🥳 🎉🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾. I recently finished my Family Medicine rotation which was after my additional IM elective (which I did in the same... Continue Reading →
Rotation Reviews: Pediatrics
Good evening everyone! I know, it's been a minute. So much was going on in my life that I had to put this on hold such as trying to finish off this rotation and passing it, Ramadan, starting bootcamp, etc. Yea, it was rough but so far everything seems to be on the mend. Anyways,... Continue Reading →
Preparing for Medical School: The Traditional Pathway
Hello everyone! So I was looking at the statistics for all of my posts one day and I realized that the posts that are most viewed are the ones that are about the pre-medical track. I have said I probably would not write another post about it (because I wrote many posts about it) but... Continue Reading →
Rotation Reviews: Surgery
So....if you had read my previous blogs, particularly my ob/gyn one, you would know that I still have some lingering fears of being in the OR (operating room). Even before I started my third year out of all of the rotations I had to complete, surgery was the one I least looked forward to. I... Continue Reading →
