I have always been interested in a lot of different things. This is part of the reason that I am so drawn to emergency medicine. I find myself going stir crazy if I do the same thing over and over again. Even in med school, when I thought I would have no time for anything […]
The Benefits of Rotating in a Community Hospital
Although my first two months of my internal medicine clerkship were inpatient experiences, I spent one month at our home hospital in Albany and the other in a small town, Cooperstown, about an hour and a half west of school. While Albany Medical Center is an academic hospital, level 1 trauma center, and the largest […]
Bias in Third-Year Evals?
As someone who firmly believes in evidence and empirical data, I’ve often wondered if anyone has studied and analyzed data about medical school practices. As students, we often just assume that the policies and schemes put forth by our schools are ones that have some demonstrable merit. For example, I’ve always thought that our evaluations […]
