Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

If you’re a 4th year medical student who is unmatched at this point, my advice is the following: Focus on securing a one year preliminary or transitional year position! Even if you had your heart set on a particular specialty, at this point, making sure you graduate with a JOB should be of utmost importance.

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GP Medical Student Insurance General Practitioner 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. So you have the consultation. Anish 04:13 Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. She was a heart failure patient. And here she was with me today. Thor: That’s correct, yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. I mean, just such struggles around corruption in hospitals, access to opioid pain medication, and you almost had to wait until a friend of yours was in power, so you could have access, get permission. What do you think about that?

Community 115

Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101