A Med School Memoir

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First week of third year–first impressions

July 11th, 2010 1 Comment

Go ahead and call for the the wahmbulance now because I’m about to whine for a minute.
So far third year has been nothing like I had imagined. Right now I’m rotating through a bunch of Internal Medicine subspecialty clinics and basically shadowing doctors for half a day. I had this impression of third [...]

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Preclinical clinical experiences

April 14th, 2010 2 Comments

So, when I was a pre-med, I thought that the best med school for me would be one where I got lots of clinical experience in the first two years. See, in the US, the traditional medical school curriculum has very few chances for clinical exposure during the first two years. Typically, the first two [...]

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The Mailman Cometh (Redux)

June 16th, 2008 1 Comment

I got another huge envelope the other day. Still no financial aid package. No super-slick magazine this time, either. Nope, this time, it was all business. Dozens of pages instructing me to fill out this form or that form, get this or that signed by a doctor, etc.
I understand that the [...]

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