Let’s talk about some new essentials now that times have changed, thanks to COVID-19. My everyday necessities have now changed for me. Sometimes, what our “old normal” looked like seems like a foreign concept. Every time I leave my home, I realized how much I used to take for granted seeing people, seeing their smiles, […]
Cognitive Distortions: Med School Edition
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on confronting maladaptive thought patterns and changing behaviors to achieve psychological wellbeing. One of the most common ways that this type of therapy is performed is by consciously labeling these distressing thoughts as ‘cognitive distortions’ with the intent of showing how unrealistic and unhelpful […]
In It To Win It
As medical students, particularly in our clinical years, it can often feel like we are at the mercy of other peoples’ subjective opinions to define our value as future clinicians and it often feels as people are given the centrality of medicine to our lives. While it is undoubtedly true that our seniors play a […]
