I think it is very important to find a good mentor throughout your career in medicine. This can be your parent, a religious leader, an older sibling, a faculty member, a spouse, a friend, a physician, or anyone that has an interest in your career and personal growth. In my opinion, a mentor whose opinion […]
The Untraditional Route to Residency
It is always thought that to become a physician, you finish high school, earn an excellent SAT score, go to college, earn a phenomenal GPA and MCAT score, attend medical school, graduate medical school, then get into a residency program for the specialty of your choice. This whole process takes almost three decades of someone’s […]
EHRing
Throughout my medical school career, I have encountered various electronic health record (EHR) systems. From the era of having paper charts, and writing orders and notes in by hand, we have come a long way, where literally everything in a patient’s chart is virtually electronic. Some clinics do not have even paper charts anymore. In […]