Tag: med school

Reflections on Family Medicine (Elective)

Ah, my light at the end of the tunnel after a somewhat distressing psych rotation. <3 I looked forward to this rotation like no other, and it definitely disappoint. I had a different preceptor each week, and all four of them were wonderful, super welcoming, and willing to teach. :]! …

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Alcohol Abuse

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays!

I’m apologizing in advance because from here on out, things may get super technical + frighteningly detailed. I’m still making a conscious effort to weed out less pertinent information to you, but…boards are coming up in a couple months and I need to cram …

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10 Tips For Pre-Meds

I recently unearthed a super-long email (if you didn’t know before, I’m reallyreally verbose) that I sent to a friend about 2-ish years ago, so I thought I’d share the pertinent advice! This is more specific to people who want to go into medicine, but parts of it are probably relevant to a whole lot …

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Reflections on Psychiatry

As you may recall, save for the time I got to spend interacting with my preceptor’s patients, I did not enjoy my psychiatry rotation. At all. (Until the last 3 days, but I’ll get to that.) I took to attending the patients’ group therapy sessions to pass the …

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Who inspires you to be healthy?

This week’s [optional] theme for the Fit Dish link up (hosted by Jill Conyers @ JillConyers.com, & Jessica Joy @ TheFitSwitch.org) is…

Who in your life inspires you to be healthy?”

I thought long and hard about this one, and was originally going to answer, “Myself,” because that is …

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