Category: Day by Day

Today is a gift.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! I unfortunately didn’t pack anything green with me for my away rotation, so it’s a good thing my school colors happen to be green–my white coat’s school emblem will hopefully keep me from being pinched today!

This week’s [optional] theme for the Fit Dish link up (hosted by Jill Conyers …

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Colorectal Cancer

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays! Since March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, that’s what this week’s topic is on!

Colorectal cancer is a neoplasm of the large bowel or rectum, most commonly adenocarcinoma, and the 3rd most common cancer in both men and women.

#ColorectalCancer = …

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What Is Osteopathic Medicine?

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays!

I’m going to talk about what I’m currently studying today, aka: what the hecks is osteopathic medicine anyway?

With the most recent ruling of a single accreditation system between the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), there are …

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Ultimate Coffee Date: March 2015

Hi everyone! I’m linking up with Coco @ Got 2 Run 4 Me, Lynda @ Fitness Mom Wine Country, & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner! Pull up …

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Reflections on Internal Medicine I

Whew! This one’s been a long time in coming, seeing as how I finished this rotation back in…January. The only thing I knew going into this rotation was that:

  • My preceptor did mainly outpatient Internal Medicine. I was pretty overjoyed by this, because then it’d be like Family Medicine! :D!
  • It would probably be more of …

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