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Physician tutoring that makes hard topics click
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Our Tutors
Who You Work With
Both tutors work across medical and pre-medical subjects
Teaching Strengths
Physician in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities at Riley Children’s Hospital, training toward triple board certification in Pediatrics, Child Neurology, and Developmental Disabilities. 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 breaking complex topics into repeatable, clinically useful patterns that actually stick.
Teaching Strengths
Psychiatry resident at University Hospitals in Columbia, MO, where she matched as a DO. She earned her DO at Kansas City University and finished her undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri in three years. Her teaching spans the full scope of medical school, with real depth in psychiatry, physiology, Osteopathic Medicine, and licensing-readiness support. Her DO training gives her a whole-system, mechanism-first read that makes heavy-concept subjects click for students who have been spinning their wheels. More than a thousand hours of teaching behind her.
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.
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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