Finding Your Voice in Medical School
Elizabeth Brunn One of the biggest challenges medical students face is finding their voice: with their medical team, with the hospital staff, with patients, and with their chosen specialty. As a...
View ArticleCode Blue: See One, Do One
Erin Baumgartner I had experienced codes before. Prior to entering medical school, I had worked as an emergency room scribe, charting patient encounters as they unfolded. I considered myself familiar...
View ArticleReflections of a Long, Long Longitudinal Clerkship
Nicole Perkes Once upon a time, in a rural hospital far, far away, a med student began her clerkship. At the University of British Columbia, the Integrated Community Clerkship (ICC) provides an...
View ArticleClinical Culture Shock: Low Health Literacy as a Barrier to Effective...
Lindsey McDaniel On a Saturday morning at one of our local safety net clinics, where third-year medical students see patients independently and then present to the supervising attending, a man in his...
View ArticleWe Lost It: A Story of Surgical Error
Dacia Russell I will admit to being an “OR avoider” — albeit, one who is certainly in awe of the stylized pageantry of sterile armor adornment. In the operating room, safe spaces are demarcated by mere...
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Clinical Students by Rishi Kumar, MD
Sasha Yakhkind Article by Rishi Kumar, MD | “Doctor’s Orders” curated by editor Sasha Yakhkind Congratulations! You’ve made it to the clinical portion of medical school. Now you’ll work alongside...
View ArticleF10.23 Alcohol Dependence with Withdrawal
Jimmy Xu A mere five weeks into my third year of medical school, I met a patient who would leave an indelible mark. Jose was a Hispanic man that teetered between overweight and obese; I am a tall,...
View ArticleLost in Translation
Katharine Caldwell In the rest of the house, the noise of the party is deafening: the clink of glasses, the sizzle of burgers on the grill, the excited cries of relatives reunited after long absences....
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View From the Other Side
Jimmy Yan “He always does this, it’s unbelievable!” My preceptor’s voice was unmistakable. We had just finished our first case and I had momentarily left to get some coffee. “This is getting...
View ArticleLetter-By-Letter, Word-By-Word
David Louis The first day of my medicine rotation, I proudly put on my white coat and stuffed its pockets with my stethoscope, reflex hammer, otoscope and a few pocket-sized books to help get me...
View ArticleHysterectomy or SSRIs?
Nita Chen She was a petite, otherwise well-appearing woman, apprehensively sitting at the edge of the examination table. Hoping to mask my nervousness about this first, intimate patient encounter, I...
View ArticleThe Beginning or the End?
Omar Aldaas The beginning of third year clerkships is an exciting time for medical students. The first step of my licensing exam was finally behind me and I could now focus on applying that knowledge...
View ArticleA Good Doctor
Jeff Hassebrock Friday afternoon psychiatry didactic sessions are a holy time among medical students. A golden weekend rapidly approaches and the afternoon, typically spent trudging through paperwork,...
View ArticleDrug Addicts and Crazy People
Wesley Thomas “Great, six weeks of crazy people!” This is the sort of attitude with which I went into my psychiatry rotation. Couple this with the fact that while most schools only have four required...
View ArticleA Patient Thank You
Alex Slaby Patients don’t always have to let us into their rooms. This week I had one of those moments where I had to take a step back and appreciate some of the unique life experiences that patients...
View ArticleIntroduction to Psych: Med School Edition
Asma Akhtar Less than 24 hours and one psychiatric consult: the time it took me to question my books, to question all given facts and statistics, to question the obvious. The boy was our sixth patient...
View ArticleThe Silver Bullet: A PTSD Story
Parsa Salehi A Silver Bullet The tiny guns held by my little action figures still remind me of that god forsaken trigger. A Silver Bullet The man came to do an evil deed; yet, I was the one who was in...
View ArticleA Third Year Opus: Prologue
Ajay Koti Goes by fast. Over the course of third year, I came to favor several select phrases to guide me through patient encounters. When patients commented on my perpetually and pathologically icy...
View ArticlePaging Sisyphus
Matthew Trifan In my third year of medical school, I was taking care of an elderly patient who had been in and out of the hospital multiple times in one month. Upon his third admission, my exasperated...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of the Skull Cap
Brian Walker Nothing is quite as strange as the first day of your surgery clerkship. It isn’t just the shock of seeing a living human intentionally cut-open or the unforgettable smell of cautery for...
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