This past month, I was rotating through a primary care pediatrics clinic. This was my first “real” experience with primary care. While I did shadow a physician in community internal medicine as a first-year student, I didn’t yet have the clinical decision-making skills by which to critically evaluate my experience. And so, this month has been […]
Retracing Footsteps
The very first semester of medical school, my classmates and I were taught the full-body physical exam. It took the. whole. semester. Every couple of weeks, in small groups of 5 students and one faculty preceptor, we would approach a different organ system–cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and so on–first practicing on each other, and then several times […]
Awe Within the Mundane
I recently completed a month of inpatient pediatrics (taking care of unwell children in the hospital). As the student on the team, I had the privilege of having way less responsibility and way more free time than most everyone else, which meant I could often go play with some of the kids who were old enough and […]
