Our school had an international festival over the weekend to raise money for the students who are going to the Dominican Republic over spring break to provide free medical care and medications to the people there. I’m not actually a part of the club, but wanted to participate anyway, so I volunteered to model for …
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Jan 28
horses for healers (funding!)
Once upon a time (last year), I got to be a part of a pilot program at Spring Reins of Hope’s medical student course on learning the importance of nonverbal communication and body language in an effort to improve students’ bedside manner.
Although I wasn’t a medical student yet, I do think I managed to …
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Jan 18
peer evaluations + leadership
Guess who’s the new secretary for my school’s ACOFP (family medicine club)?! :D
I’m really excited. :] I hope we can do more in terms of volunteering and working with people in the community. I know having a free clinic here isn’t realistic, but I think doing blood pressure clinics, screenings and …
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Jan 16
Coat Tail
For one of our courses (Early Clinical Encounters), we have coat tail sessions where we’re assigned to a physician for a couple hours and basically follow them around/see real patients (although clearly, I’m just limited to taking patient histories right now). I love these sessions because it reminds me of why I’m in med school …
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