Let’s talk about some new essentials now that times have changed, thanks to COVID-19. My everyday necessities have now changed for me. Sometimes, what our “old normal” looked like seems like a foreign concept. Every time I leave my home, I realized how much I used to take for granted seeing people, seeing their smiles, […]
An Updated About Me: Avani K. Patel, MD, MHA
As we navigate this new normal, I find that for medical students, especially fourth-year medical students, the journey to residency has changed drastically. I can’t imagine trying to interview and rank institutions based on virtual interactions only. In the spirit of our new normal, I have found many residency programs are now creating Instagram pages […]
First Month of Intern Year: Part Three
So, if you read Part One and Part Two of my First Month of Intern Year, then you’ll know I started on Psychiatry Emergency Services—12-hr shifts Monday through Friday that usually always ended past 8 because there’s just so much to do. My upper-level resident was with me for the first two weeks, and then […]
