Teaching other people about diagnosis and management of any particular disease is critical. It’s our job as physicians to educate patients (and those who care for our mutual patients), so that they are able to live a healthy and productive life. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon.
Learning just one, yet medically-relevant, fact today may be all the difference needed to effectively treat a patient. Improving one’s knowledge today will result in better outcomes tomorrow.
I love Internal Medicine residency training. I am blessed to be at a fantastic program. For the past several years, my medical practice – and career – has been molded by attending physicians. I often sought out the “best” teachers/mentors to help. Here’s my guide to pinpointing an invaluable teacher-mentor during inpatient and outpatient clinical …
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Medical residency training is an amazing opportunity, filled with a lot of stressful scenarios that test your knowledge and grit. I have had the pleasure of working with some excellent Fellows in the various subspecialty fields, including one in particular from the Critical Care Medicine department. Knowing that I am pursuing a Gastroenterology fellowship position, he went …
