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Featured Post of the Month: Unpleasant Encounter, by an Internal Medicine Resident

Leave a Comment / Black Doctors, Day to Day Med School, Uncategorized, Women of Color in Medicine / By / February 17, 2021 / , , , , ,

……. I believe it was the second week of my outpatient medicine rotation. Though not as  exhausting as the routine 12-to-15-hour inpatient medicine shifts, working as a resident in the  outpatient setting also has its challenges. Sometimes laboratory orders and urgent diagnostic  imaging are delayed due to insurance authorizations or perhaps patient’s inability to afford  …

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Hidden in the Night – a Family medicine Intern speaks

1 Comment / Black Doctors, Day to Day Med School, Uncategorized, Women of Color in Medicine / By / February 17, 2021 / , , , , , , , , ,

So, I had survived learning the EMR—who knew Epic could be so different between hospitals? I can finally submit an order without suffering palpations every two seconds, and even answering pages without double checking everything with my team. I finally feel like I’m on the way to becoming a fully functional intern! …although, it wasn’t untill my month …

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Featured Post of the Month by 3rd year Medical Student

Leave a Comment / Black Doctors, Day to Day Med School, Uncategorized, Women of Color in Medicine / By / January 17, 2021 / , , , , ,

In medical school, I started over… suddenly, I was a kindergartener again relearning colours, space, and letters. Here, in medical school, I learned beginnings and endings have a lot in common, you lose yourself in them.  In the hospital, i relearned colours. I taught myself what each scrub color meant so I Knew who I …

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OMG: My second day of medical school

Leave a Comment / Black Doctors, Day to Day Med School, Dr. J, Uncategorized, Women of Color in Medicine / By / August 9, 2020 / , , , ,

Somebody should have warned me..I mean, REALLY warned me. This is day 2 of medical school and already, its time for it to be over. These people are crazy! Do they really expect us to learn all of this information this quickly? Are we supposed to be superhuman? Maybe some where on my application they …

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