Hi, I’m Jake and I’m a resident physician in Emergency Medicine in West Michigan! I graduated with my M.D. from Wayne State University. I was a both a long-term and short-term tutor for over 30 students during my time at both Michigan State for physiology and Wayne State for my doctorate. I loved teaching so much that it has actually become my career objective. In my future as an attending physician, I would like to take on medical students and assist them in their education. In the meantime, I love spending my time ensuring that future and current college and medical students, engineers, business professionals, etc. meet and exceed all of their educational goals! I specialize in math and science (the medical aspirations make sense) but am well versed in tutoring a wide variety of subjects, especially test taking strategies and pathology, anatomy, and physiology.

While I am tutoring, I encourage students to be active learners, which has been shown to be beneficial for long term learning. I'm a firm believer that if a student can walk me through the material, it signifies that the material has been effectively grasped. As such, as we discuss topics, I ask students to relay their knowledge in a stress free and positive environment, which allows me to understand where students stand, inspire them to try and develop solutions or connections on their own, and finally fill in knowledge gaps. In order to succeed in this approach, I bring a persistent positive attitude and a smile to each tutoring session, which allows for a comfortable environment under which conversation and ideas flow naturally. I aspire to establish a peer to peer relationship instead of a tutor-tutee relationship with each student by creating an environment where learners can build their confidence and actually look forward to each session.

I have a flexible schedule and will work with you and/or your student learner to improve not only their knowledge, but also their outlook on their education.