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 »
Ending the last week of this summer program is exciting, but scary. On one hand, I’m just excited to be in medical school and finally going to school for something I will actually use when I graduate. On the other hand, finishing this summer program means school will be starting, and I’ll be in actual, …
Gross anatomy has its name for a reason…because its truly gross. Sure, day 1 wasn’t so bad because the pelvic area was pre-dissected for us, so we just looked at and identified structures. But our professor thought we would learn more if we did the dissections, so that’s what we did today…and it was GROSS. …
Hello! So…tomorrow is my first day of this 3 week summer med school pre-program. Most of the summer we will learn anatomy with some cell biology and biochemistry. Specifically tomorrow, we will cover the anatomy of the pelvis and the male and female urogenital systems. Just glancing over the notes and slides that have already …