For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been finishing up the psychiatry and neurology block of medical school. I have to say that I noticed some significant differences between clinical psychiatry and psychiatry research. For those of you that don’t know, I spent nearly all 4 years of my undergraduate career studying how schizophrenia affected […]
A reflection on my psychiatry rotation
One thing that has startled me since starting rotations is the prevalence of psychiatric conditions. So many patients that come to the hospital have underlying psych conditions that no one addresses and often do not even bother to elicit. However, psych conditions can play a huge role in medical disease prognosis, treatment adherence, and even […]
