During my time at my externship, I asked the doctors to focus on the things I felt I was weak in and ask questions based off that information. One of those areas of particular interest/weakness was radiology. Although I did have a radiology course (and I did pretty well), I still feel extremely weak in reading/interpreting […]
Book Knowledge in the Real World
Here we are again. After surviving the endless sprint that was third year, I’m on to fourth year and to summer clinics. It seems like only yesterday I left gross anatomy behind and was ready to conquer second year. At my school, we do summer school between third and fourth year and have 6 weeks […]
The Science Versus the Art
As we speed toward the end of summer, I find myself just finishing the first of a few externships I lined up to meet my fourth-year requirements to graduate. I chose to go close to home and went to an emergency/after-hours practice in Virginia. Although I lost a week of my time to repairs after […]