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
Medicine
When those who participate in medical research are unable to consent, who serves as advocates for them? This provocative—and fundamental—question was brought to the fore by a front-page article in last week’s New York Times. A key government agency, the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), has determined that a national study of 1,300 extremely Read more
You’ve been accepted to medical school, and the excitement and relief are a great high after the wait and anxiety. The weeks before starting school have flown by and the thousands of things you heard during orientation have basically gone in one ear and out the other. Lo and behold, here comes the anxiety all Read more
He was a young man: 33 years old. When I entered the emergency room, I could see that he was gravely ill and struggling to breathe. Although he was surrounded by family, he looked afraid. His family members confided in me that they could barely recognize him, as he had become so desperately thin in Read more
It’s been an amazing day at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. From the truly incredible response to the blog post by Allison Ludwig, M.D., where the assistant dean reflects on her own Einstein Match Day in 2004 to the wishes from across the country on social media, we thank all of you! But the best part Read more
I thought the financial barriers to intrauterine device (IUD) access would disappear on August 1, 2012, with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which stipulates that all “FDA-approved contraception” will be covered without copayments. I was wrong. Since last summer I have often felt that helping my family-medicine patients get IUDs—the most reliable, reversible Read more
