It’s truly a challenge to make your internship application unique. Especially nowadays when so many students seem to be so perfect – they have a 4.0 GPA, speak multiple languages, are presidents of all these organizations, started a business, and have publications. You name it, they’ve done, and then they’ve done some more. What are […]
Scheduling Externships
The start of fourth year is starting to become ominously close. As a first-year, it felt like this day would never happen. But now that it gets closer and closer, I feel less ready to step out of the classroom and start acting like a real doctor. At the time of this writing, I have […]
The Power of Mentorship
As a new grad, I have realized that mentorship is everything and having a good mentor is vital. I believe in the power of mentorship and no matter if it’s in person or online mentorship. For that, I always try to get the most of every mentorship opportunity I have had. That’s why I recently […]
Happiness Within
In spite of all the personal excitement I have had over this past month, the joys of moving to a new city with my wife, finding an awesome job, and meeting new patients, the death of a friend puts everything else into perspective. I typically view moving to a new state as a big deal, […]
Endgame
Yes, many of us are familiar with the Avengers superhero movie. But here I am referring to the last portion of a chess game when the board is empty save for the kings, maybe some knights, bishops, or a few pawns. How do we play when we only have a few moves left? Apart from […]
Doctors Don’t Have All The Answers
I think one of the greatest things we can do as doctors is admitting that we don’t have all the answers because we don’t. And if we think we do, we don’t. We never will. Years of training and experience, even though it may feel like it, won’t endow us with swathes of knowledge. There’s […]
Fighting the UV Blues: Self Care for Prolonged Screen Time
The one unavoidable caveat to a mostly online education is the amount of time I am spending staring at my computer screen. I find that my eyes feel heavy and strained, making practicing those suture patterns even more difficult (side note, if anyone has tips for an intradermal pattern for a lefty to be faster […]
All The Good Songs
(Dedicated to Sunny, Zoe, and Eden) I’ve read the statistics. I’ve seen the countless Facebook posts that raise awareness. I’ve spoken with friends who have grappled with thoughts of suicide. But once you lose someone to it, the finality of it all is so severe. Over this past month, I learned of three souls who […]
Dancing In The Dark
I’ve got to be honest. When I was 19 years old, working my first job as a veterinary technician, practicing using my first stethoscope on my docile golden retriever in my brand new scrubs with the bright, burning dream to be a veterinarian, I did not picture myself in veterinary school as the sleep-deprived, […]
Tunes Fit For a Pandemic
Music is something that has historically brought mankind together, even in our darkest hours. On Christmas Eve 1914, while the world was just beginning to understand the devastation that World War I would bring, carolers could be heard in the trenches along the front lines. These French and British soldiers were taking a moment of […]
