Today was one of those “I don’t have any classes in the afternoon, so I’m going to stream lectures instead” days. The heavy downpour from the outer bands of tropical storm Hermine gave me even more of an incentive to avoid the roads and stay at home. I enjoyed finishing…
In retrospect, yesterday was one of the longest days I’ve had this year. I slept a total of fifteen minutes the night before trying to cram as many last-minute details as possible for the hematology/oncology exam, but the hard part was trying to buy time from after the exam till…
While an echocardiogram (ECG) looks like a not-so-impressive barrage of waves on paper, it allows a cardiologist to gain a tremendous deal of insight about a patient’s heart.
After two months of planning and trying to analyze every conceivable scenario with a “what could go wrong” mentality, I realized the product of my paranoia Friday evening at the class of 2014’s white coat ceremony.
Today was my first preceptorship session in PPS-3 with an infectious disease specialist. Our group of three students saw patients in the veterans affairs hospital with all sorts of conditions, and for today’s session, we attempted to draw out the history of their present illnesses.
I’m extremely excited to be part of a group of MS2s spearheading a new kind of organization at Baylor Med – Surgical Corps. While I can go on and on about why this is an incredible opportunity for students, you’re better of being directed to the organization’s website and reading…
Baylor Med has been under a lot of fire regarding numbers over the last year. What’s the financial situation? What’s wrong with the ranks? Quite frankly, last year’s applicants were rightfully concerned about these statistics, but today, I finally came across what I feel is the most important number in…
Baylor Med’s curriculum basically entails students covering the human body in its “normal state” during the first year and then going back through the organ systems’ pathological states in the six months of pre-clinicals as an MS2. This August, we’re covering cardiology and hematology/oncology as part of block 7a’s coursework.…
While most of my classmates traveled abroad for recreation and/or participating in something “medically related”, I had a far less eventful (but successful) summer break.
You know you’re a student at Baylor Med when…