Details, details, details. Being a medical student or doctor is more than just memorizing the clinical presentations of various diseases, you need to treat each patient as an individual. You are going to be faced with similar illnesses over and over throughout your career. It’s easy to become complacent when faced with such repetition. Every […]
Chaplain Rounds
During my first year in medical school, UCLA offers us the opportunity to shadow a chaplain working at a nearby hospital. I do hope that other medical schools encourage their students to participate in a similar experience. If your current, or eventual, medical school, does not offer chaplain rounds shadowing, please look into it. Your […]
The “Steps”
It seems to me as if only a few months have passed since I spent all my days during a beautiful summer studying for my USMLE Step 1. But, it has already been one academic year and here I am, yet again, studying for Step 2 CK that I write in 6 weeks. This is […]
