What makes the biggest difference to your health? According to Dr. Mike Evans, a family medicine professor at St. Mike’s Hospital, exercising for just 30 minutes a day can have a big impact on your health! Staying active during medical school is one of the hardest things to do, especially
Category Archives: Medical School
How We Should Die
A quote from a beautiful piece that has been going around the web by Ken Murray titled “How Doctors Die“ It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they
A Minimalist Life
A month ago, I came upon a collection of articles that challenged my ideas about time management. Being in medical school, there’ s often an endless list of activities to do – clinical duties, studying, research, volunteering, student groups. You get comfortable juggling multiple tasks, ambitious to do more. You
The Patient’s Family
Looking through my old drafts, I found a post written when I was starting medical school that was never published. (Written September 28th, 2008) I’m glad to see I still agree with the feelings and thoughts I had then. Published now three years later as I am about to graduate
Poor MD – What Every Medical Student and Resident Should Know About Finances
Today I want to do a quick review of an PoorMD‘s eBook titled First Aid for Personal Finance: What Every Medical Student and Resident Should Know The best thing about this book is it only costs $0.99 and hopefully the small price you pay will pay for itself in with
An Anesthesiologist’s Dilemma
Conversation between me and a friend applying to Anesthesiology, while discussing our upcoming CaRMS applications. Me: “So you’re not going to miss talking to patients at all?” Him: “Not at all, I get to do as much talking as I want pre and post-op” Me: “You’re not going to
Clerkship Pearls – How to Get a Consultation
This is another post in the Clerkship Pearls series for medical students going through clerkship, and today I’ll be discussing How to Effectively Get a Consultation for Your Patient One of the scariest things to do as a clerk is to ask another consult service to help you with the
Would You Still Be a Doctor if You Didn’t Get Paid as Much
Would you still pursue medicine if the pay was much less? What if it paid nothing at all? If money wasn’t an issue, would you still be doing what you are doing today? This is a question I came across today and had me thinking. Right now as a medical
The Medical Hamsterwheel
Choosing a career of medicine is very much like running in a hamster wheel, except it’s not that easy to get off. The process of training to become a doctor is quite long. Usually 4 years in an undergraduate degree, 4 years of medical school, 2 to 5 years of
Clerkship Pearls – How to Present a Patient Case Effectively
Presenting a case is an essential skill every medical student will have to master. In fact, it is one of the few things you can easily do to impress your preceptors and staff doctors. It’s a visible and tangible thing that can set you apart from your peers and can
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