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 […]
Rise and Shine!
Waking up patients is one of those skills I never realized I needed until I started 3rd year. Each morning the patients need to be woken up so that we can pre-round and get updated on all the overnight events. On my first day, one of my senior residents told me, “this is a hospital […]
What Makes an Outstanding Medical Student?
Being in medical school means that your colleagues are a group of super-accomplished and smart people. There’s two ways to look at this. One view is that in such a group, students will push themselves to succeed. The flip-side view is that medical school is filled with a bunch of “gunners” (gunner is slang for someone […]
