The more time I spend in hospitals around real doctors and patients, the more I realized how little I know. There are so many concepts that I learned in the first few years of med school that I thought I understood perfectly. And, on the flip side, there are so many concepts that I just […]
The Eyes Have It: How to Learn Ophthalmological Exam Skills
The eyes are often challenging for medical students to learn about, but there are some great educational resources out there, and I will describe one of them. This weekend, I was again volunteering at the free clinic (Arbor Free Clinic) in Menlo Park that my medical school operates along with it’s sister clinic in San […]
Nerd Heaven
I just returned from the Stanford Immunology Departmental Retreat in Asilomar, down in Monterrey on the California coast. What a retreat entails is researchers from across our department, including grad students, post-docs, and professors clinical and basic, present their research back-to-back. Over three days we see a few dozen 15-30 minute powerpoint presentations on what everyone has been working […]
