Dr. Malatack shares his personal journey from potential astrophysicist to transplant immunologist and pediatrician. He also gives some practical advice and tips for medical students aspiring to be pediatricians. Dr. James Jeffrey Malatack is a professor of pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine with primary clinical responsibility at Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont […]
How to Succeed on Outpatient Pediatrics
In pediatrics, they say that kids aren’t just little adults. They’re special, they’re unique. But when you’re rotating on outpatient pediatrics and you see 20 patients for a well-child check, well, it often feels like the uniqueness of pediatrics isn’t so…unique. As a medical student, here’s what I learned on how to be successful and […]
Nursery Week: They’re Small but Mighty
This is what my attending told me on my very first day of nursery week. During our 7-week rotation in pediatrics, we have 1 week devoted to working in the newborn nursery clinic. Since it was only a week long, I hadn’t expected us to do more than shadowing the clinic. It takes a week […]
