This past month was the first of two during which I could take electives during my clerkship year. After unsuccessfully attempting to secure a spot in the first adult and then pediatric heme-onc, I ultimately decided to spend two weeks doing anatomic and clinical pathology and the other two on the infectious disease consultation service. […]
5 Better Ways to Say “I Don’t Know”
As a medical student, you will spend most of your time drinking from a firehose of knowledge, and when pimped there is a strong chance that you won’t know the answer. Your attendings were all once medical students, so they will understand the occasional lapse, but even so, they may get annoyed if the answer […]
Scrub Pockets for Inpatient Rounds
When you’re on rotations, there are many things you can do to help as a medical student, despite not having the training or skills necessary to perform the procedures that residents and attendings do. Specifically, on rounds, there are certain things you can do (namely, filling your scrub pockets) to be prepared and to hopefully […]
