I’ve been thinking lately of the different ways medical school has influenced my lifestyle. Besides causing most of us to become hypochondriacs, I learned something from my preceptor that I have become very hyperaware of–the importance of posture. One day during clinic, he was talking to me about a book he read called Becoming a […]
Be Aware of Self-Care
Lately, I have been thinking a lot more about self-care in medical school. This is something they used to emphasize to us in the beginning of the first-year, but entering second-year, I notice a lot less people are mindful of self-care or discuss the importance of it. Luckily, this is not an area of wellness […]
It’s Not Just Muscle Memory
When we first started learning all the shoulder, arm, forearm, and hand muscles in anatomy, I felt extremely helpless. There were SO many muscles in the forearm that sounded so similar, with such long names – flexor carpi radialis, extensor carpi radialis, flexor digitorum radialis, etc. It didn’t help that the muscles were pretty difficult […]
