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ERAS Application Submitted
The Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS ®) opened up the site for submission today at 8am CST. The coming months will hopefully bring many interview invites to all applicants. After all, this is a...
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Happy Labor Day 2012
This long weekend was brought to many of us by Labor Day... one of several holidays which I won't have off starting next year. I can't help but think that this year's round of...
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Beginning Of Pediatric Anesthesiology
Every medical student has an "audition rotation" - the time they spend rotating through their career of choice. Now it's my turn. The career: pediatric anesthesiology. The mentality: kids are awesome. I spent some...
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Personal Statement Near Completion
I've been fidgeting with the content of my personal statement (PS) for anesthesiology since summer break, but I finally had a breakthrough. Overnight I saw my practice in the future - seeing patients and...
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USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills
Per the USMLE website, Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) "uses standardized patients to test medical students and graduates on their ability to gather information from patients, perform physical examinations, and communicate their findings to...
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Beginning Of CV Anesthesia
The first week of CV anesthesia was relatively uneventful as many of the surgeons were out-of-town on vacation or attending conferences, but I enjoyed being back in the operating room. On my first day,...
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Finished With SICU – Onto CV Anesthesiology
Now that I've completed my surgical ICU experience, I have a renewed sense of how pivotal teamwork is in the clinical setting. Coordination between pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nurses, and physicians was absolutely paramount in...
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Half Way Finished With SICU
I'm staring at a crazy patient census to start my second-half of this SICU rotation. 😯 Now that I've become acclimated to how things operate from a logistics standpoint (discharge criteria, admissions, trauma, etc.),...
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