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, […]
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 […]
Books For My Shelf
At the end of the family medicine rotation, my classmates and I took the shelf exam, a standardized subject exam written by the NBME to assess our learning during the clerkship. Starting with the family med clerkship felt like a great introduction to clinical medicine, but I had heard that the shelf exam was a […]
