I never thought there could be poor performing medical students on clinical rotations until I became a resident. That was a real shocker for me. The example stories you’ve been told of what NOT TO DO—guess what? Medical students still do them. That is always beyond me. How? What? Why? Just some starter words for […]
Avani’s Top 5 “What’s In My Bag” Essentials
Let’s talk about some new essentials now that times have changed, thanks to COVID-19. My everyday necessities have now changed for me. Sometimes, what our “old normal” looked like seems like a foreign concept. Every time I leave my home, I realized how much I used to take for granted seeing people, seeing their smiles, […]
An Updated About Me: Avani K. Patel, MD, MHA
As we navigate this new normal, I find that for medical students, especially fourth-year medical students, the journey to residency has changed drastically. I can’t imagine trying to interview and rank institutions based on virtual interactions only. In the spirit of our new normal, I have found many residency programs are now creating Instagram pages […]
