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 […]
Organize Your Oral Presentation for the ICU
My first oral presentation on the wards was pretty rough; I did not know where to focus it, and organized it by what I thought was the most pressing concern and sort of in a SOAP note format. The intern I was working with on thoracic surgery introduced me to the format they typically present […]
Thoughts on Care Coordination in the Health System
People are always throwing around the term “care coordination” when discussing patient care and how to optimize it. I was previously taught the importance of care coordination across a patient’s providers and between the health system and the community, but I have only recently witnessed firsthand how the lack of coordination within the health system […]
