Black Physicians in Medicine
impostor syndrome:-this is a phenomenon that is loosely defined as doubting your own God givenabilities and thinking that you’re a fraud. As doctors, we are taught the art of medicine. We are taught that everyone has theirown way around the art, but you will bever be wrong as long as you know the guidelinesand maintain …
My time as a community medicine and global health fellow has been a wonderful and unique experience that daily equips me with tools to serve and improve conditions for often overlooked underserved and vulnerable populations. The vastness of information I am learning everyday through my many roles and responsibilities as a community medicine fellow is …
……. 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 …
Featured Post of the Month: Unpleasant Encounter, by an Internal Medicine Resident Read More »
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 …
Hidden in the Night – a Family medicine Intern speaks Read More »
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 …
Featured Post of the Month by 3rd year Medical Student Read More »
The untimely death of Chadwick Boseman forced me to recount my numerous encounters with death and how it has affected how I practice medicine and view aspects of morbidity and mortality. My initial encounter with death was during college. I was volunteering in the ICU and truly tried to delve into the pathophysiology of shock …
Encountering death and how it has affected how I practice medicine Read More »
Today I reflected upon my experiences as a black woman in medicine. Following the death of George Floyd, a lot of medical spaces have had, or are currently having, conversations on how to be an anti-racist, how to support people of color, and how to increase diversity within workspaces. All of these conversations have made …
Reflecting Upon My Experience as a Black Woman in Medicine Read More »
I come from a long line of greats: great minds, great cooks, great lives. But the current times of this country has made me feel anything but great. I am a woman that immigrated from a foreign land at a very tender and impressionable age. My first encounter with racism was when I was 5 …
If people say that medical school is easy, or not that bad, they have lied to you. Of course, this is my opinion, based on my experience. However, I felt that my first year tried to kill me. I thought that I was prepared as much as possible for medical school. I received a B.S. …
Guess what? I am FINALLY starting to really enjoy medical school! I know that sounds crazy, because after all, shouldn’t I already be enjoying medical school? Sure, I was happy, excited and blessed that I got into medical school. However, strangely enough, I can’t say that I was super excited to get up and go …