It can be hard to keep a consistent routine in medical school while the rest of the world is going about with their lives and milestones. It’s hard to have to say no to family and friends, events and vacations. Sometimes it feels like a never-ending journey, and it makes you feel bad having to […]
Conquering Imposter Syndrome
You’re shadowing on the wards, and you’re following the physician around for half a day, seeing all the acute care patients. You walk into one of the patients’ rooms and the physician starts asking the patient how he’s doing. He is suffering from pneumonitis, a complication of the chemotherapy he received, along with Merkel cell […]
Being Vulnerable in Med School
We don’t talk about grades. At an Ivy League medical school. We ho and hum about how we do. It’s interesting. We spend the first two years on a pass/fail grading basis. And so when we get to our clinical years, and we start to get graded, we become anxious. We’re starting to be compared […]
