Medical School

The fourth year of medical school is as close to Xanadu as medical students get. There are numerous aspects that set the fourth year apart from the prior years, and here we briefly focus on three: refinement, education and adventure. At the outset of the fourth year, the majority of students know what they are Read more

The hardest part about the transition from the preclinical years to a third-year clerkship is the change from being a full-time student to a student-worker. During the first two years, technologies such as panopto and Emed allow students to dictate their own schedules and their own timelines. Other than doing required lab work and attending Read more

Ask any doctor to tell you about a patient she took care of as a third-year medical student and be prepared for an answer rich in detail and nostalgia. It is a crucial and momentous time of growth in the development of every physician. You hit the wards filled with the knowledge gained from the Read more

Like Alice entering Wonderland, the medical student making the transition from the second to the third year is faced with a fabulous array of beings and environments that are bewildering despite the seemingly endless hours of classroom learning and the dozens of “practice” patients examined during the “basic-science” years. Fundamentally, knowledge introduced in the first Read more

  Sexual health, though fundamentally important to every human being, is rarely discussed between patients and their healthcare providers. It’s an important conversation and one that requires doctors and patients to venture into less-than-comfortable territory. Who exactly should treat sexual health issues? Many assume that this should be the territory of a gynecologist for women Read more