Student Doc 101: Your Guide to Thriving in Med School
Aug 27, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
High stress and a massive volume of information break most medical students before they ever even touch a patient. With physician burnout at an all-time high, discovering how to maintain your humanity…
Michael StinnettHostNYITCOM Student AdvisorGuestAndrewGuestOwenGuestNYITCOM Support Services RepresentativeGuestNYITCOM Community Outreach RepresentativeGuest
There's a great story that we heard just yesterday of someone who had some shoulder pain and went to see an osteopathic physician.

And the physician essentially just used his thumb to make the shoulder pain go away.

For example, my family physician is a DO doctor, and he always asks about the factors in my life.
You can tell that he is concerned with the environment and the other life factors that are associated to see what is the root cause of what's going on.
So I think that's really important because it's not just – where's the element and then what medicine to take.
It's more about the full person.
And so I think there's a real osteopathic, holistic, humanist side of the DO school that I think is really

There's a great story that we heard just yesterday of someone who had some shoulder pain and went to see an osteopathic physician.

And the physician essentially just used his thumb to make the shoulder pain go away.

For example, my family physician is a DO doctor, and he always asks about the factors in my life.
You can tell that he is concerned with the environment and the other life factors that are associated to see what is the root cause of what's going on.
So I think that's really important because it's not just – where's the element and then what medicine to take.
It's more about the full person.
And so I think there's a real osteopathic, holistic, humanist side of the DO school that I think is really
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