Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Okay, now I'll admit I've done a horrible job of keeping up with the blog lately especially given that this is only my fifth post of the year, but today is still super special for me. I was originally told that as a premedical student and single mother with low stats, that I would not make it into medical school.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. They discussed the need to review blueprints in other specialties to ensure greater integration of older adult care and address ageist assumptions in assessment content, while also aligning with published competencies for medical students and residents.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 18, 2023

Additionally, this past week alone, a large number of former medical students who rotated with me during my intern year graduated from the shorter duration residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, etc and are now getting to do what they set out to do.

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Medical Student Medical IT Internal Medicine 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I love my Plastic Surgery residency family! It kept me busy, but I really enjoyed the hospital I was rotating at, and the attendings let me do a lot in the operating room. I had never rotated in it when I was a medical student, so it was kind of cool being behind the curtain. It's the little things that make me happy.

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Hospital IT Medical Student ER 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. Heather: Sure.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. I was like maybe I’ll write a blog post about this later. I’m going to try to remember as much as I can, so when I wake up, can I write a … My thought was I’m going to write a cool blog post about this.

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