Things You May or May Not Need: Part 2
The Two Week Rule Eventually you will fill all of the pockets of your white coat with various pocket reference books, tools, and pens the wieght of which will suprise you. These things will accumulate...
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What to Expect Now that You’re Accepted One of the greatest days of my life was when I was accepted to medical school. It ranks up there with my marriage to my lovely wife, the birth of our children,...
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It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better Many of you have just started medical school and I want to congratulate you and remind you that no matter how bleak it looks during the first few months of...
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It Sucks to be You My post on my first day of third year seems to have struck a nerve and a few of you have asked some variation of the question, “What can we do to end the abuses which are so much a...
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Problem Based Learning Lecture is a pleasant, drowsy picnic where you nod in and out of sleep while listening to the far-away drone of bees and the faint ringing of goat-bells as the local peasant...
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Psychiatric Ward Inpatient psychiatry wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be. The people locked up on the tenth floor of our hospital were just a little too crazy to really be interesting. A little...
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Actual Evaluation by My Residents and Attendings (Just for old time’s sake I reviewed my Dean’s letter. Man, those were the days! -PB) OB/Gyn: Student is on time and does everything asked of him...
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(Many of you are about to start third year and are looking forward to it with feelings of both anticipation and dread. You know that it’s going to be the real start of your medical career where you...
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(I have received quite a few emails over the past two years asking for advice as well as anwering a lot of questions about the medical school admission process on The Student Doctor Network. I thought...
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(Once again I dig deep into the archives to answer questions about the medical school admissions process-PB) Dear Panda, In order to take advantage of affirmative action, I lied about my race. Good...
View ArticleThings You May or May Not Need: Part 2
The Two Week Rule Eventually you will fill all of the pockets of your white coat with various pocket reference books, tools, and pens the wieght of which will suprise you. These things will accumulate...
View ArticleWelcome Aboard
What to Expect Now that You’re Accepted One of the greatest days of my life was when I was accepted to medical school. It ranks up there with my marriage to my lovely wife, the birth of our children,...
View ArticleHow Do You Like It So Far?
It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better Many of you have just started medical school and I want to congratulate you and remind you that no matter how bleak it looks during the first few months of...
View ArticleNo Solution
It Sucks to be You My post on my first day of third year seems to have struck a nerve and a few of you have asked some variation of the question, “What can we do to end the abuses which are so much a...
View ArticleHell on Earth
Problem Based Learning Lecture is a pleasant, drowsy picnic where you nod in and out of sleep while listening to the far-away drone of bees and the faint ringing of goat-bells as the local peasant...
View ArticleBarking Mad
Psychiatric Ward Inpatient psychiatry wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be. The people locked up on the tenth floor of our hospital were just a little too crazy to really be interesting. A little...
View ArticleClinical Evaluations
Actual Evaluation by My Residents and Attendings (Just for old time’s sake I reviewed my Dean’s letter. Man, those were the days! -PB) OB/Gyn: Student is on time and does everything asked of him...
View ArticleDon’t Tell the Spartans
(Many of you are about to start third year and are looking forward to it with feelings of both anticipation and dread. You know that it’s going to be the real start of your medical career where you...
View ArticleNavigating the Medical School Admission Obstacle Course. (Real Questions from...
(I have received quite a few emails over the past two years asking for advice as well as anwering a lot of questions about the medical school admission process on The Student Doctor Network. I thought...
View ArticleMore Medical School Admission Advice: Addressing the Diversity Puzzle (Real...
(Once again I dig deep into the archives to answer questions about the medical school admissions process-PB) Dear Panda, In order to take advantage of affirmative action, I lied about my race. Good...
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