How you present yourself on the wards is just as important as your test scores on shelf exams. It tells your attendings and residents what kind of character you have, what kind of physician you may end up becoming, and on a microscopic level, directly affects your evaluations. I have heard of friends complaining of […]
Why I’m Still Excited About Medicine
Prior to medical school, I heard from many students and residents that it is almost inevitable to get burned out after clinical rotations or after your third year. Now at that point in my education, I am pleasantly surprised to find that this does not at all hold true for me. I am more excited […]
Loving Medicine
I have little doubt that most of us in medical school and beyond got there because we love medicine but it can become easy to forget what that really means. Because as one of the world’s best-known doctors the eponymous protagonist of Dr. Who reminds us “love, it’s not an emotion. Love is a promise” […]
