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Evaluating the Impact of a Longitudinal Clerkship Lecture on Medical Students Knowledge and Response to Human Trafficking [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Few medical schools include this topic in their curriculum, and it is not standardized in undergraduate medical education. Training students to provide care and respond using a trauma informed approach can help ensure our healthcare sites are places of healing and not re-traumatization.

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Screen Time

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

I have been working in cancer screening for seven months now, and I have had the opportunity to reflect on what that means for me, as a cancer patient myself. For a start, my cancer is colorectal not cervical, and besides it is unrelated to screening as I was diagnosed at an age that is outside of the screening parameters.

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Differences between Residents by How They Matched into Family Medicine: Does SOAP make a difference? [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In the US, medical students enter residency through The Match. Outcome Measures: ITE score, self-reported satisfaction with professions of medicine, specialty of FM, residency training, and 2 item burnout screening measure. vs. 64.2%), and be an international medical graduate (40.9% Overall, 10.4% vs. 31.2%).

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A Side-by-Side Look: COVID-19 Vaccines vs. Super Mario Invincibility Star

GomerBlog

TARGET POPULATION: Not medical students. Starmen must be used before it exits the screen. There have been many questions asking how these two vaccines stack up against one another , but a huge question remains largely unanswered: how do they both stack up against the Invincibility Stars or Starmen from Super Mario Bros. ?

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I Feel Things.

StorytellERdoc

At this very moment, as I sit here in front of my computer screen, I am very nervous but grateful for the chance to enter your life with my stories. Thanks to the many people in my life for their support and encouragement upon my returning--you know who you are! Please feel free to repost, share my return, and visit my archive! I missed you!

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

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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2020 - 2021 Residency Season (Diary Posts)

Aspiring Minority Doctor

I couldn’t just use credit cards to pay for my applications, because I was already maxed out from previous years (having a ton of student loan debt and trying to stay afloat as a single parent will do that to you). There's not much, so I'll just include both posts here. Hopefully, this last hour will be a smooth one. Anyway, back to ERAS.