For students interested in practicing medicine, becoming a doctor or a physician associate are two common options. Both paths lead to patient care, but they differ in training length, responsibility, ...

You can get straight A's, crush the MCAT, and match into your top choice specialty. But what if you wake up in 10 years thinking, "I made a huge mistake?" Just because you have the academic skills and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Somewhere along the way, pre-med stopped being a college path and became a teenage identity. If a student is considering medicine, ...

Like many of the almost 100,000 medical students in the U.S., I enrolled in medical school having grown up infatuated with the idea of becoming a physician. I idolized the many doctors that had cared ...

All through her 20s, Taylor Carty chased her dream of becoming a doctor. Carty, now 30, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was a baby, and was inspired by the many doctors and health care ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Freeport resident Juan Diego Betancur, who is pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. I was 14 years old when I fled ...

My story is one of great sacrifice. Most people go about their lives without the faintest idea of what it truly takes to become a medical doctor. There are uniquely incredible sacrifices which must be ...