When medical school classmates ask me which specialty I am applying into for residency, I answer “medicine.” That word makes sense amongst medical students, but when family friends ask me the same question and I respond with the same answer, I receive quizzical looks. For clarification, a residency program in “medicine” is shorthand for internal […]
How We Die (part 1)
Last year I had the opportunity to enroll in a course co-taught by Professor Irving Grousbeck at the business school and Dean Charles Prober at the medical school entitled “Managing Difficult Conversations”. It was a breath of fresh air from the typical medical school curriculum, teaching skills which are hard to define yet essential to the […]
Medical Writing: Why the Needs the Verbal Section
Writing is a big part of medicine, and writing should be the goal of those training for medicine. Now, forgetting for a moment the bitter incongruity of someone like myself writing about good writing, it is worth stressing how important written communication skills are in medicine. Many aspiring medical students think about the massive amounts […]
