In medical school, we are often told upon entering the cadaver lab that the bodies in front of us should be treated as our first patients. For most of my colleagues, this is largely rhetorical as while we should obviously respect our cadavers—most physicians hope to never see a patient in the morgue again. As […]
Psychiatry Rotation: Why Mental Health is Important
After I finished the surgery rotation, I began the psychiatry rotation. What a difference! They are literally night and day from each other, or at least in my opinion. Truth be told, I didn’t think I would love my psychiatry rotation as much as I did. Every attending and resident I came across was so […]
Some Do’s and Don’ts While on Clinical Rotations
I never thought there could be poor performing medical students on clinical rotations until I became a resident. That was a real shocker for me. The example stories you’ve been told of what NOT TO DO—guess what? Medical students still do them. That is always beyond me. How? What? Why? Just some starter words for […]