As the COVID-19 pandemic surges through the world, citizens are looking for ways to cope with fear and uncertainty, protect their loved ones, and forge ahead. Many of those working on the front lines in healthcare fields are boldly risking their own health and safety to help care for others in this fight against an...Read More

Researching and studying disease has been of utmost importance to medical professionals and news media alike. Even for diseases that aren’t of pandemic proportions, it is important to understand how to find and diagnose them quickly to give patients the greatest chance of recovery and rehabilitation. To help explain what is pathology and what does...Read More

If you are considering a career as a pediatrician, you may be curious about how to become a pediatrician or what you can expect out of a career in pediatrics. Like many medical fields, pediatrics has its share of challenges and rewards. There are also many unique specialties to choose from that allow you to...Read More

As an aspiring medical student, you may be curious about how to become a dermatologist. Like many other medical specialties, dermatologists are fully certified doctors who hold a license to practice medicine and have earned an M.D. or D.O. behind their name. Dermatology as a career field has a lot to offer: happy patients, lower...Read More

If you’ve ever broken a bone, chances are you’ve been treated by a radiologist. The field of radiology is dynamic as doctors are increasingly using evolving technology in the form of computer-enhanced imaging to diagnose and treat disease. If you’ve ever wondered “What does a radiologist do?”, read on to learn more about this career...Read More

If you’ve ever broken a bone, chances are you’ve been treated by a radiologist. The field of radiology is dynamic as doctors are increasingly using evolving technology in the form of computer-enhanced imaging to diagnose and treat disease. If you’ve ever wondered “What does a radiologist do?”, read on to learn more about this career...Read More

With recent changes in U.S. medical school programs and significant shortages of doctors projected within the next 10 years, there’s a lot being said about Caribbean medical schools. Unfortunately, not all the information out there is accurate, and this misinformation often leads to a negative stigma surrounding Caribbean med schools. To help students discern fact...Read More

If you are considering a career in medicine, you may feel excited, yet slightly overwhelmed, about the many options available for your career path. One of the largest medical fields available is internal medicine, with over 200,000 practicing internists currently working in the United States. Internal medicine is an active community, with internal medicine doctors...Read More

If you want to go to medical school, you’ll eventually have to make decisions about several aspects of your career, including what field you’d like to specialize in, where you want to practice medicine, and what type of practice you’d like to have. Before you can make any of those decisions, however, you have to...Read More

Giving back to students at his alma mater is a priority for Dr. Osman Ali, a Class of 2017 AUA graduate. Dr. Ali is a second-year internal medicine resident at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), where he was recently selected to be Chief Resident. At the UMMC Midtown campus, Dr. Ali created a...Read More