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Remember Melissa Naslund, Ph.D., NCC? Similar to Michelle Montgomery, Dr. Naslund is our western medical student advocate and is available to help third- and fourth-year students on the western side of the state focus on success and wellness in their rotations. She is already known as the motivational happy email sender. She has also helped […]

In recent years, “resilience” and its companion concept “grit” have become buzzwords in higher education. Resilience “is not the exception to the rule, it is the rule,” says Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the promoter and researcher on resilience and grit. With all that is happening in students’ lives these […]

There is one thing that we can be pretty sure about—medical students are intelligent. They did well at school (they most likely were even near the top of their class) and some of them will have relied on a good memory, but not always a great deal of study, to pass their exams. Unfortunately, medical school is not like […]