Trends in Medical Education:
Decline in overnight call during third-year clerkships
(MD-granting medical schools, 2001-2019; no data available for 2013-2015)
My 14yo son: “I don’t want to be a doctor when I grow up.”
Me: “Ok fine. How come?”
Son: “Too much school. And I don’t want to get woken up at night.”
Tough to argue with this.
Here’s the Chest X-Ray of a young girl suffering from a condition that is now the #1 cause of death in children and adolescents in the U.S.
What’s the diagnosis?
Nearly every patient on service this week has had extensive medical care at another hospital. We have no prior notes, no baseline test results. Takes forever to call for info just to figure out the patient’s history. This is one of the most frustrating aspects of medicine.
The beauty of 4th year is finishing rotations and being unable to cope with the inordinate amount of free time that smacks you in the face
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#MedEd Clinical pearl I leaned this month:
Doctors are an anecdotal species and their long-term choices are sometimes motivated by the patient that burned them