After submitting two papers Friday afternoon, I officially finished my month of Family Medicine. It was a fantastic experience, and I learned a lot about the “patient centered medical home” (PCMH) with regards to coordinating a patient’s healthcare holistically across many specialties and time beginning with the primary care physician. The ultimate goal of PCMH […]

Family Medicine has been my first real outpatient experience, and two weeks of clinic have certainly flown by! My preceptors have been incredibly gracious in taking time to teach me tricks to the physical exam, treatment regimens, establishing rapport, and making sure I see a wide breadth of cases. I’m lucky to have been matched […]

After commuting 60 miles round trip to the Texas Medical Center for a year, my Family Medicine rotation has given me an incredibly nice reprieve – the clinic I’ll be working at is down the street from my old high school and pre-school. Basically, it’ll be a 15 minute commute back to my roots. *nostalgia*

The last year of clinics have been full of successes and failures. I’ve helped patients and learned a lot, but I’ve also come up short when it mattered most. One year ago, I wrote a summary of my goals as a clinical medical student, and in retrospect, I feel that I’ve mostly achieved what I outlined. […]

This has been an awfully cold and wet weekend, but fortunately Santa provided me with an NBA season starting this afternoon. Throw in a bunch of hours spent playing Counter-Strike Source, browsing Android-related forums, submitting code snippets… and its been yet another uneventful break. In all honesty, I’d much rather take a rain check on […]