Category: School

A review series on various subjects/topics/lectures we've gone over in med school.

Anorexia Nervosa

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays! I don’t think(?) I’ve ever written anything that’s required a trigger warning before, but this topic would definitely qualify.

I know it’s not Monday yet, but my Recipe ReDux is tomorrow (see past ReDuxes!), and National Eating Disorder Awareness Week started today. There …

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Day In The Life: Internal Medicine

I haven’t done a “Day in the Life” in what feels like forever, so why don’t we talk about my first month-long rotation since…September(?)! (It’s so nice to not live out of a carry-on + backpack and move to a different state every 2 weeks!)

I’m back in my home state! I needed another month …

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Day in the Life: Rural Family Medicine

Nevada Sunset

This area was definitely not as small as Lewisburg (almost 10x the size, actually), but pretty much everything was about 1.5 hours away, so it was close enough, and still registered as a 4 on the RUCA (Rural Urban Commuting Area) code scale!

I actually found out about this place because of the

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Day In The Life: Nutrition

Lunch at HIMG

…Can I just say how much I loved and adored my nutrition rotation!? I wanted to set up a rotation in nutrition because I probably got about…one lecture on it in med school.

Yes, seriously. One.

Sure, there were bits and pieces scattered every here and there between blocks, but if I want to go …

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Day In The Life: Family Medicine (Acting Internship)

Peds Ceiling

My future envisioned practice is most likely going to be outpatient, and my third year of med school didn’t provide me with too much experience in the way of inpatient medicine, so there was definitely a lot to learn on this rotation!

I’d previously had the misconception that audition rotations and AI’s …

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