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With my heart beating slowly but loudly, and my prickly underarm hair gathering sweat like dewdrops, I face my first day of residency. I didn’t know where I was going in the morning and of course ran in 5 minutes…
Friends, your 3rd year clerkships are a whirlwind. The year seems daunting at the start, and as soon as you blink it’s already almost time for board exams again. Or, maybe it only feels that way in hindsight. My knees…
I went to the CleanMed 2024 conference this spring and was surprised to find so very many conference sessions focused on plastics and their harms to health. Microplastics and plasticizers were discussed at length. After hours of superficial discussion of…
I started medical school at 27 years old, after working full time as an engineer for 5 years. I was apprehensive to come to medical school after such a long break from academia, and worried that I would be older…
Evidence based medicine (EBM) is a real buzzword right now. I had never heard the term until I was in the lecture hall during my first year of medical school. “Isn’t all medicine based on evidence?” I wondered. This blog…
Money If you are after the high salary, consider other career options. A bachelor’s degree costs hundreds of thousands of dollars less than a medical degree. A bachelor’s in engineering, computer science, accounting, business… the list goes on. There are…
My school has a systems-based curriculum; we spend about 6 weeks focusing exclusively on one body system, take an exam on it, then move to the next system. The first course our Foundations course, covering some “basics.” Mostly it was…
