How you present yourself on the wards is just as important as your test scores on shelf exams. It tells your attendings and residents what kind of character you have, what kind of physician you may end up becoming, and on a microscopic level, directly affects your evaluations. I have heard of friends complaining of […]
Conquering Imposter Syndrome
You’re shadowing on the wards, and you’re following the physician around for half a day, seeing all the acute care patients. You walk into one of the patients’ rooms and the physician starts asking the patient how he’s doing. He is suffering from pneumonitis, a complication of the chemotherapy he received, along with Merkel cell […]
