clinicals

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…

I had to wait till Sunday to write this post. Why? Because the first week of clinics included being "on-call" on Saturday for my internal medicine team. This really is different from the basic science curriculum. :shock:

Its been said that the didactic portion (basic sciences) of medical school is more about "book smarts" while the clinical portion utilizes one's "street smarts." Among the latter is an astute mastery of dealing with people - patients,…