The Master’s program in Physiology helped to lay the foundation that I needed to be successful in my medical school courses. Medical school has its own challenges, and I feel like the Master’s program prepares you very well for looking outside of the box. You are competing with the top 2%-5% of students in the nation when you apply to medical school, and not only is this a personal preparation, it also strengthens your application to medical school. Not only do you have that education foundation, but you become familiar with the faculty that also teach in the medical school. You have a different comfort level when there are those questions that come up, and you also have someone to turn to that will make themselves available to help you be successful. I really feel like my first year of medical school, going through Physiology, I’m not going to say I couldn’t pass it, but the additional course work that was on top of that, along with the stressors that you have that just come along with having the rest of medical school and the rest of life trying to go on around you, this is what helped me succeed, this is what helped me get through it. I’m very thankful that the professors were there to teach. I’m very thankful that when I struggled, just figuring out how to manage it all, that there were professors that were there that would sit and listen to me, and that’s worth the world to me.