When I started medical school, I immediately began to question whether it was right for me. My first block was anatomy and I’ll be honest: I hated it. Coming from a big science background, anatomy was horrible. All these structures to memorize and there was no logic to most of their names–you just had to commit […]
New Hobbies in Med School
I have always been interested in a lot of different things. This is part of the reason that I am so drawn to emergency medicine. I find myself going stir crazy if I do the same thing over and over again. Even in med school, when I thought I would have no time for anything […]
The Benefits of Rotating in a Community Hospital
Although my first two months of my internal medicine clerkship were inpatient experiences, I spent one month at our home hospital in Albany and the other in a small town, Cooperstown, about an hour and a half west of school. While Albany Medical Center is an academic hospital, level 1 trauma center, and the largest […]
