Sina earned his bachelor’s degree with honors and distinction in chemistry and biology from the University of Massachusetts. During college, he served as a teaching assistant and supplemental instructor in chemistry and biology, and as a BLS instructor at the American Red Cross. After graduating, he obtained his M.D. with research honors from Tufts University School of Medicine, and then completed his internship in internal medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. Currently, he is a dermatology resident at UMass Memorial Medical Center. Besides passing all the pre-clinical courses during medical school, Sina successfully completed Steps 1, 2 CK, and 3, in which he scored 257, 258, and 257, respectively. He also scored over the 90% percentile in all his core clerkship shelf exams. Throughout medical school and residency, Sina has been acting as a tutor and peer mentor for many medical students and recent medical graduates.
Sina has over 5000 hours of tutoring for the USMLE Step 1, 2, and 3 as well as other subjects over the past 14 years. Additionally, he has worked with over 1000 students at different academic levels and has fine-tuned his teaching skills to best fit the needs of every student. He finds it most rewarding to help students realize their true potential and succeed in their studies, developing a strong relationships with them and serving as their mentor along their journey. He is patient and ensures that his students gain a deep understanding of the important materials so that they can apply them in difficult questions and real-life scenarios. Sina greatly enjoys clinical reasoning, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and organ systems and provides clinical correlations so that his students better understand the relevance of a given topic to clinical medicine.
Undergraduate: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: UMass Dermatology Program
USMLE Step 1: 257
USMLE Step 2: 258
USMLE Step 3: 257
Sina has been practicing and studying Taekwondo since preschool and believes that it has taught him discipline, hard work, respect, and honesty, all of which are important elements to be successful. He has a 3rd-degree black belt and teaches adults and children at a local martial arts studio.
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