My husband’s medical school offered a “key supporters” session during his first-year orientation week. Each student’s family or significant other was invited to attend a two-hour session to learn the schedule of a student doctor…
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Students Viewed This Type Of TikTok 412 Billion Times—And It’s Not Porn
McGraw Hill’s response: a new app that looks, as one student put it, like “their textbook and TikTok had a baby.”
Families come in various forms
I was nervous, but I knew what I needed to do. I reminded myself that I would have regrets if I did not initiate the conversation I envisioned in the proceeding days. After a resident with whom I worked closely on my family medicine rotation gave me fe…
Football Concussions—The NFL’s Worst Fear—May Be More Likely On Fake Grass Fields, Study Suggests
The research, among the first to examine how playing surfaces contribute to head trauma, comes amid significant public outcry about the NFL’s handling of concussions.
The desire to be challenged is one of the most important aspects of an effective doctor
Bang! A pulsing pain surged through my head. As I floated in the water of the makeshift pond, it became apparent. I was concussed. That day, June 16, 2018, is what I consider the most significant day of my life. That injury, for a long time, led me to …
How to change your specialty during residency
There are no clear statistics, polls, or studies to know exactly how many physicians each year, or within their working lifetime, switch specialties. But with physician dissatisfaction scores steadily rising, this is becoming a very common sentiment. F…
The most important tool a medical student can have is the ability to reflect on experiences
Throughout my life, I have been trained by Jesuit institutions. I have loved all of what they have prescribed – to “find God in all things,” to “care for the entire person,” to “be a woman with and for others.” But t…
Medical training and the systematic creation of mental health sufferers
The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted our lives, tilting them into imbalance and oftentimes severing our individual sense of inner peace. The newfound public initiative to combat these paralyzing challenges is welcome, especially to me. I’ve coped with ma…
A death knell for cadavers
If “video killed the radio star” and Zoom squelched the commute, it seems certain that virtual reality and three-dimensional imaging will be the death knell for cadavers. Recently, NBC Nightly News did a story featuring staff members from C…
Fill mid-level positions with unmatched medical graduates
In a crowded primary care clinic in an inner city, Mr. Smith, with pursed lips, was sitting next to his oxygen tank and waiting patiently for his doctor. He gratefully commented on how much the oxygen tank had helped him with his daily activities. Howe…
