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

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……. 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

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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

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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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1st Year Tried to Kill Me

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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. …

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Finally Enjoying Medical School

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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 …

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When bugs are trying to kill you…

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As if I wasn’t already scared enough of bacteria and bugs, medical school has made it even worse! I am now constantly washing my hands every 10 minutes, or every time I touch something…whatever comes first (like a lunatic, lol). Since I am currently taking microbiology, I am learning about all of the little invisible …

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OMG: My second day of medical school

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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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Patient Simulation Lab

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I think the use of mannequins to introduce medical students to various medical procedures is a good thing. Although we will also eventually work with standardized patients, being able to practice blood drawing techniques, intubation, and other procedures that we should eventually learn, is great….especially since at the beginning, we wont have the slightest clue …

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First Day of Summer Program

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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 …

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Welcome!!

2 Comments / Black Doctors, Day to Day Med School, Dr. J, Women of Color in Medicine / By / August 9, 2020 / , , , ,

So, I’m super excited to get ready to start medical school in the Midwest next month. I’m from the west coast, so I’m sure this transition will be interesting, to say the least. I hope that this blog will communicate my journey to becoming a doctor and its joys and challenges. Looking forward to the …

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