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Podcast with Dr Delicia: Shedding Light on Mental Health Struggles and Building Your Ideal Practice with Dr. Delicia If you’re a healthcare professional, student, or just someone interested in the many facets of medicine, you’ve come to the right place! We are a team of medical students discussing a broad range of topics with peers,...Read More

“It’s 4am. I’m exhausted but anxiously awake with a gnawing sense of dread in my gut. The peace of sleep evades me. Laying here in the dark coolness of my comforter is where I prefer to stay. I don’t have to hide my tears behind smiles. I don’t have to hide uncertainty behind confidence, I...Read More

The definition of a high-risk physician is one who’s struggled with depression, problems with alcohol and drugs, has access to means, is driven, competitive, compulsive with excessive risk taking, individualistic, ambitious, age greater than 45 in women and greater than 50 in men, graduated of a high prestigious school.  Nonthreatening, but annoying physical illnesses, self-destructive...Read More

Depression is a chronic disease so staying abreast of your mental thermostat is important.  One of the things that medical students always love to use when they’re studying tons of information are pneumonics. I too learned the pneumonic for depression.   It’s called SIG E caps and like most pneumonic I’m not sure who originated it.  When a...Read More

My passion is helping medical students overcome stress and depression so they can maximize their full potential. As a doctor I enjoy seeing medical students thrive and many become my colleagues. I want to share a few ways that I used sensory experiences to help me when I was a medical student and had to...Read More