| RESOURCES FOR SUCCESSFUL YEAR-END STUDYING
Be sure to take advantage of any review sessions, TA office hours, and study groups. Check out good places to study:
Click here to find up-to-date information about locations, hours, and amenities! And look for the Study Space icon on the Tufts Mobile app.
Reminder: Course Withdrawal
The semester ends on Monday, April 30. That is also the last day to withdraw from a class (via SIS, under "Classes," no later than 11:59 p.m.).
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| PREMED PODCASTS
5 Podcasts for Premeds
Are you or someone you know always listening to podcasts? Podcasts are everywhere and their popularity is increasing, so it's not surprising there are now a host of podcasts about medicine and medical education. If you haven't jumped on the podcast bandwagon just yet, we've narrowed down the list to five podcasts about the application process and what it means to be in medical school that we think you'll enjoy, with perspectives from medical students, residents, and faculty.
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SUMMER INTERNSHIP Summer Research position in the Neuroscience Department at the Tufts School of Medicine investigating Alzheimer’s Disease.
The position would ideally start in late spring for training, then fully start in the summer, and any student/recent grad could possibly also stay on during the academic year as well.
Students will learn extensive/participate in extensive basic science research, and work both in vitro and in vivo techniques, and also work under our great PI, Dr. Giuseppina Tesco as well an amazing group of Postdocs. Learn more here.
Anyone interested can email Shudee Wu (Tufts University 2018, BS Biology), who is leaving to begin medical school this summer and who currently works there and sent the position.
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JOB/POSTGRAD OPPORTUNITY I. Clinical Research Assistant in the Skeletal Health and Osteoporosis Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Job summary can be found here. Catherine Donlon (Tufts ’16) sent this position as she is leaving for med school this summer.
If interested send a cover letter, resume, transcript and writing sample to cdonlon@bwh.harvard.edu.
II. Research Associates for Yale University School of Medicine Professor
Dr. Elan D. Louis, a professor at Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, is interested in hiring two full-time paid research associates (RAs) who will be involved either the Risk Factors Underlying Essential Tremor (RULET) Study or the Family Study of Essential Tremor (FASET). These studies are attempting to uncover the causes for two of the most common neurological disorders—essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. The RAs will travel within the US to conduct in-person visits, which include phlebotomy and videotaped neurological examinations. The RAs will learn about aspects of clinical research from study design to data collection and publication, how to recognize a range of involuntary movements, and are strongly encouraged to conduct independent research. B.A./B.S. degree, driver’s license, and interest in learning phlebotomy required. Start date June 1st, earlier preferred if possible. If interested, please send a cover letter and resume to Ruby Hickman.
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Carol, Stephanie and Amanda
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| The 2019 AMCAS application cycle will open Wednesday, May 2. Additional important dates for this cycle include submission opening which will be on Thursday, May 31, and data transmission of verified applications to medical schools, which begins on Friday, June 29.
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Online Appointments The pre-health advisors use online appointment scheduling.
New slots are posted each Wednesday evening for the following week
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| Students who fail to cancel an appointment within 24 hours and do not show up will not be allowed to make a second appointment that semester.
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