Category: School

A review series on various subjects/topics/lectures we've gone over in med school.

Day in the Life: Inpatient Family Medicine

I thought this would be a fun series to start up, because unlike this year, I’m going to have a fairly nomadic lifestyle once August hits! I don’t know where I’ll be or if I’ll even have a kitchen, so anticipate some changes for the latter half of this …

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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.

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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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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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    Kicking Unhealthy Thinking Habits

    Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays!  Since I’m still in psych and sitting in on group therapy sessions whenever my preceptor ditches me, I figured I’d share another one of them with you! (There’s a light at the end of the tunnel though! I have a new preceptor for the …

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