1-on-1 physician teaching
Physician Tutoring for USMLE and Medical School
Work 1-on-1 with a physician on coursework, clerkships, board milestones, OMM, clinical reasoning, and pre-med sciences. Direct help that makes hard topics click.
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Who You Work With
Two resident physicians, matched row for row: board performance, clinical honors, specialty depth, and 1-on-1 teaching across medical and pre-medical subjects.
- Residency
- Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency
- Specialty lane
- Pediatrics, Child Neurology, Developmental Disabilities
- Board score
- Step 2: 255 (out of 300)
- MCAT
- 94th percentile
- Clinical honors
- Honored every clinical rotation
- Tutoring
- 1,000+ tutoring hours
- Teaching scope
- All medical and pre-medical subjects
- Languages
- English
Teaching Strengths
Physician in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities at Riley Children’s Hospital, training toward triple board certification. A teacher first: more than a thousand one-on-one hours with over a hundred students, with particular care for neurodivergent learners and a gift for turning complex topics into repeatable, clinically useful patterns.
- Residency
- Psychiatry Residency
- Specialty lane
- Psychiatry & Osteopathic Medicine
- Board score
- Level 2: 680 (400 passing)
- MCAT
- 94th percentile
- Clinical honors
- Honored every clinical rotation
- Tutoring
- 1,000+ tutoring hours
- Teaching scope
- All medical and pre-medical subjects
- Languages
- English and Urdu
Teaching Strengths
PGY-1 resident physician in Psychiatry at University Hospitals, Columbia. She earned her DO at Kansas City University after a Psychology major and Biology minor at the University of Missouri. She honored every clinical rotation, and her teaching brings psychiatry, OMM, clinical reasoning, and licensing-readiness into a steady, mechanism-first system.
From Students
Dr. Cocuzzo's reviews are from her 1-on-1 tutoring on Wyzant. Dr. Ali's are from her Bone Wizardry students.
What Students Say
Real feedback from students we’ve worked with
“What stands out is how she takes something dense and makes it click without watering it down. She never rushes a session, and she stays with a concept until I can explain it back to her. That patience is a big part of why I’ve done well this year.”
“She found gaps in my understanding I didn’t even know were there and filled them in a way that finally stuck. On top of how sharp she is, she’s warm and encouraging, so I actually look forward to sitting down with her each week.”
“A huge part of why I honored peds and felt ready for the shelf was working with her. She took messy pediatric topics and rebuilt them into pieces I could actually hold onto, and she gave me a real framework for both the wards and the exam.”
“We only had about five weeks before my exam, and she got me to a pass by turning brutal questions into explanations I could actually follow. She’s brilliant and endlessly patient, and she made the whole thing feel doable instead of overwhelming.”
“Fatima has a steady, clarifying way of teaching that makes hard material feel much less chaotic. She meets you right where things blur together and rebuilds the concept so it feels organized and actually usable.”
“Her osteopathic lens is a real strength. She takes concepts that feel abstract or memorization-heavy and turns them into something connected you can reason through, so you build a structure you can rely on under pressure.”
“She is a strong fit for students who need guidance without added pressure. Her style is calm, patient, and clear, with real rigor behind it, and she is great at helping stressed learners organize their thinking.”
“She brings a psychiatry-minded sensitivity to how people learn under stress. Fatima gets that the problem is often anxiety and overload, not content weakness, which makes her especially valuable when you need help that feels manageable.”
How We Work
Tutoring Approach
Every session is personalized to how the student learns
Personalized
Sessions adapt to the student's learning style, goals, and pace. No one-size-fits-all scripts.
Pattern-Based
Focus on clinical reasoning and cause-effect patterns, not rote memorization.
Neurodivergent-Aware
Both tutors have extensive experience with learners who need a more adaptive approach.
Tutoring Rates
Request Tutoring
One-on-one time with a physician, open to everyone. Bone Wizardry members save about $10 per hour: when you are signed in, the lower member rate is applied automatically at checkout. Every request starts through Bone Wizardry before payment.
1 Hour
$75per hour
Best for a first pass, a targeted weak topic, or deciding whether a tutor fits.
Members: $65/hr
5 Hours
$70per hour
Total $350. A compact block for one system, one exam phase, or a short sprint.
Members: $60/hr
10 Hours
$65per hour
Total $650. Enough room to rebuild patterns, review misses, and keep the plan honest.
Members: $55/hr
20 Hours
$60per hour
Total $1,200. For a longer runway through dedicated or clinical rotations.
Members: $50/hr
Checkout confirms the request. After payment, Bone Wizardry and the selected physician receive the tutoring details and reply to schedule.
Refer a Student
Bring a classmate, you both win
- The new student saves $20 on a 5 hour package or larger, applied automatically at checkout. No code to enter.
- You earn $40 for every new student you refer who books a 5 hour package or larger and completes a first paid session.
- Rewards are paid out monthly, after the first completed session.
- Applies to 5 hour packages and up. At checkout, the new student enters the referrer's email in the "Referred by" field, and the discount applies automatically.
Book a Session
Send one request and Bone Wizardry will route it to the right physician. Both physicians work with medical students, pre-med students, and learners at every level.
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