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Glissade Aid Case Study - After reaching the summit you are descending Buckeye Peak, an almost 13,000 foot peak in Colorado.  You return to the top of the snow filled gully you laboriously ascended an hour or two earlier.  The snow is deep but the avalanche hazard low.  You pull out your ice axe—you’ve been dying [...]

Burn Out Case Study - It’s late January and it’s been a long couple of weeks at work; you’re feeling a bit crispy after lots of holiday family visits and way too much overtime.  You decide to head out for a weekend ski tour to a “secret” old mining cabin up above Breckenridge that you’ve been [...]

Going for the Gold – It is a beautiful September afternoon and the aspen are aglow.  You and three friends (the “over the hill” gang of 50-somethings) are mountain biking down an old mining road up near Telluride.  The brilliant fall foliage ignites your spirits and you and let ‘er rip.  You are doing Mach [...]

By: Alessandra Santiago As future healthcare professionals, we recommend that pre-med students put a premium on gaining experiences that confer a lens into the patient perspective (of which there are many). At CU Denver, we seek students who have applied what they've learned in the classroom to outside experiences, especially those that expose them to [...]

By: Alessandra Santiago At the CU Denver Admissions Board, one of the most frequently-asked questions we hear from pre-meds is:  “What extracurricular experiences make applicants stand out?” Our answer to this question is rarely as prescriptive as: “Do three years of wet lab research, volunteer for five years on the Pediatrics Ward, and make sure [...]

In this series we asked undergraduate students what questions they had for physicians and nurses. We will be posting new questions each week. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date, or follow us on Facebook to ask a question of your own. Second Question: When a very difficult/rare case comes to you, how do [...]

By: Alessandra Santiago The foundation for a pre-med undergraduate comes in the effort you put in to your time in the classroom. Doing well in challenging classes, electing to enroll in upper-division biology and chemistry courses, and successfully connecting the many academic disciplines that comprise medicine through your extracurricular work can demonstrate to an Admissions [...]

In this series we asked undergraduate students what questions they had for physicians and nurses. We will be posting new questions each week. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date, or follow us on Facebook to ask a question of your own. First Question: How do physicians and nurses avoid burnout? Dr. Elaine Reno [...]

By: Alessandra Santiago With fewer than 3% of all applicants accepted in most of the nation’s top-tier medical schools, the competitiveness of the pool of medical school applicants cannot be understated. Compare the number of applications during the 2017-2018 cycle to the number of matriculations, and you see just how competitive the process can be: [...]

By Nicole Ernst, PA Physician Assistant University of Colorado Children’s Hospital Patagonia Remote Medicine Expedition (P.R.M.E) is a 10 days guided expedition in the Andes Mountain Range of Patagonia, the course is directed by Dr. Martin Musi, faculty at University of Colorado School of Medicine and originally from Argentina, “This is a terrain-learning experience for [...]