COMLEX LEVEL 1 and 2 PERSONAL TUTORING

Dr. Ramirez was born and raised in East Los Angeles County, California. He graduated with honors from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2013. During his time at the University of California, Irvine he participated in peer-tutoring, mentorship programs, and he served as a teaching assistant for numerous pre-medical and biology courses. He received multiple awards for excellence in tutoring and research. After graduating, he spent a year working aboard an ambulance as an emergency medical technician in Los Angeles County prior to matriculating to the top-ranked University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

In medical school, he continued to teach, mentor, and advise undergraduate and medical students. He spent a year between his third and fourth year of medical school as a National Institutes of Health TL1 Clinical and Translational Research Fellow. During this time, he became intimately involved with USMLE education, tutoring, and preparation. He received a 266 on Step 1 (99th percentile), 265 on Step 2 CK (95th percentile), 255 on Step 3 (98th percentile) and he scored in the 90th percentiles on all of his shelf exams. He also received honors in nearly all of his clinical rotations.

Collectively, he has been teaching a wide range of subjects for more than ten years and has experience tutoring for several board exams, including all of the USMLE exams. He is a passionate educator and strongly believes that with hard work, good direction, and resilience, every medical student has the opportunity to succeed and pursue their dreams. In his role as the Director of Medical School Tutoring, he strives to ensure that all of the tutors at MedSchoolCoach have the training, tools, support, and resources that they need to provide their students with an exceptional experience.

In addition to his passions for education, he has been intimately involved in medical school admissions. He has served on the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine admissions committee and has extensive experience reviewing applications, interviewing applicants, and providing recommendations for admission. In this role, he enjoyed learning how to review applications holistically and how to view each applicant as a unique individual, each with their own experiences, skills, and passions.

He is currently an integrated vascular surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco where he continues to be intimately involved in medical and surgical education. He is interested in academic vascular surgery and is committed to continue being a leader in medical education. In his free time, he enjoys running, swimming, weightlifting, and exploring San Francisco with his friends and family.

Lucas was born and raised in Minnesota. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison before beginning medical school at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He received a 243 on USMLE Step 1, 714 on COMLEX Level 1, 272 on USMLE Step 2CK, and 728 on COMLEX Level 2CE.

Mackenzie was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, graduating with distinction in medical anthropology. She was also a Global Health Fellow at Yale and conducted field work in Kenya, Guatemala, Panama, and China. At Yale, Mackenzie worked as a peer tutor for many science and writing courses. She also spent four years volunteering as a college admissions coach through a non-profit organization, and she taught health education in New Haven high schools through Community Health Educators.

Mackenzie was accepted to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the Patient Oriented Research Training and Leadership Program, a dual degree MD and Master’s of Science in Clinical Research. During her third year of medical school, Mackenzie excelled, honoring all of her clinical rotations and scoring above the 90th percentile on all of her shelf exams. She scored a 270 on STEP 2 CK. Mackenzie is currently on a scholarly year between her third and fourth years of medical school, completing her Master’s degree while working on a thesis project in Maternal Fetal Medicine. Mackenzie has continued to tutor and advise students throughout medical school, serving as a peer tutor, a notetaker for the Disability office, and a Senior Student Advisor. She has also been a teaching assistant for numerous medical school courses. She is passionate about teaching and finding ways to help her students based on their strengths, weaknesses, and individual learning styles. She has extensive experience and success tutoring students who have failed a USMLE examination and require remediation.

During medical school, Mackenzie has been actively involved in her school’s free clinic, which serves uninsured members of the community. She has also been involved with global health research in Kenya and Liberia. Outside of school, Mackenzie enjoys hiking and camping, singing, and vegetarian cooking.

Neville grew up in rural Monmouth County, New Jersey. Wanting warmth and excitement, he graduated honors from the University of Miami with dual degrees in Biology and Economics with a minor in Chemistry. In a short three years, Neville was able to clock over 400 volunteer service hours, work on multiple medical research projects and serve as a Teacher’s Assistant for Transmission Electron Microscopy, publishing articles in Nature Genetics as a first author and in American Heart Association: Circulation Medical Journal.

In addition, Neville was very active at the U as President of the Multi-Ethnic Greek Council, chair of the Student Multidisciplinary Hearing Panel for ethical violations of the Code of Conduct and one of five finalists for the 2013 ACC Leadership Symposium.

After graduating, Neville gained valuable clinical experience as a scribe at his local Emergency Department while applying for medical school. He gained administrative experience as Vice President of Finance of D.E.Psi, National Service Fraternity, Inc. In medical school, he continued his passions of teaching and service through tutoring medical students in subjects he had already mastered. In addition to achieving honors in Medical School, he scored >250 on Step 1 as well as scoring high honors in all of his core rotations during his clinical years.

He is currently a fourth year medical student pursuing the field of Surgery and will be applying for the Match in September 2019. He hopes to apply to University teaching programs where he can continue to use cutting edge research to bolster his learning and teaching abilities. In his free time he enjoys landscape photography, scuba diving and going on adventures on his motorcycle.

Karen graduated with honors from Dartmouth College with a degree in Chemistry. After graduating, she attended Case Western Reserve University for medical school, where she was inducted as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) society.

She currently is an incoming PGY-2 resident at Harvard Ophthalmology/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. She completed her intern year at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In her free time, she enjoys running, rock climbing, and cooking.