Preface Full disclaimer, I know the title is a little “clickbaity”, but after years of writing R scripts for data analysis, I believe I’ve come across a solid milestone of what a fully reproducible R workflow should aspire to be. This article is NOT intended for beginners but rather for advanced…

A Step-by-step Example using Differential Gene Expression Analysis — Introduction This article is aimed towards people who are looking to “break into” the bioinformatics realm and have experience with R (ideally using the tidyverse). Bioinformatics can be a scary-sounding concept (as least it is for me) because it is such a vast and fast-developing field that it can be difficult…

Welcome! Welcome to MD+ (and a warm welcome to medical school for all our M1s)! For those who come from non-traditional backgrounds, we hope that you find kinship in this space, as many of us have had careers in industry before transitioning to medicine. For those who came into medicine more…

Hey MD+! We’re excited to announce the launch of our MD+ Podcast! Our community has grown so much since starting in 2020. Within that time, inspiring founders and physician-innovators have come through our community to share their insights and pay it forward. We wanted to capture the amazing conversations that…

Growing up, I was always so excited when my parents would finally relent and get me a pack of trading cards (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, basketball, you name it). The suspense of flipping through each of the cards slowly, hoping for a really rare card at the end…and nothing. …

Hey MD+! As our community continues to expand and mature since our public inception in 2020 led by MD+ founder, Sherman, we are excited to welcome the third cohort of our Executive Team for this calendar year. Clara Sun, our former VP of Community (MS3 at Case Western) has stepped…

Over the past year, MD+ has undergone immense, immense growth. The most noticeable difference from our previous year-in-review is that we’ve rebranded from our original moniker, “MD++” to now MD+. With the help of our amazing team, we launched our new snazzy digital home base, mdplus.community. Our community is now…

I believe a physician-innovator is an immensely powerful career calling to want to play a role in improving the way healthcare is delivered at a larger scale. However, the road to becoming a physician-innovator may be construed as an inherently abstract path. This means that there’s no one path to…

Today is a special day! Almost exactly two years after our initial launch in 2020, our community will be entering a new chapter with MD+ as our new name and identity moving forward. …