Two weeks ago was the last day of my last clinical rotation. It was a sad day with my absolute favorite preceptor throughout the entire year of rotations. I drove away from the clinic feeling like I hadn’t in a while – the realization that I would not be working with this physician again, who […]
Efficiency in the Physical Exam
Working with several outpatient providers now in our “chronic and preventive care” rotation block, which includes outpatient family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, and psychiatry, I feel that my physical exam skills have become much more refined, thanks to the advice of my preceptors. They have taught me how to be more efficient, less awkward in […]
Catching Babies
I am convinced that whoever created the reputation of ob-gyn as a hostile environment for medical students has never spent any time in the field. Of course, I may have simply gotten lucky with those residents and attending physicians around me but I have found it to be an incredibly welcoming environment. Also absent at […]