Medscape Blogs - Education & Training

• Unintentional Lessons of Third-Year Clinical Rotations Between delivering babies, running codes, and managing diabetes, there is a lot to learn from clinical rotations that I know will contribute to my future role as a resident physician.
  Medscape Blogs, May 20, 2022
• Letter to My Younger (MS-1) Self What if you opened a letter from yourself at the start of med school? From what I've learned about medicine and personal growth in the past 4 years, this is what I would say to my younger self.
  Medscape Blogs, May 06, 2022
• TV Doctors: I'd Like to Have a Word With You Hollywood needs to hold health professionals to higher standards.
  Medscape Blogs, May 05, 2022
• Health Quality: Protecting Patients and Clinicians From Medical Errors Medical errors take thousands of lives annually while imposing exorbitant economic costs. Designing more effective and human-centered approaches can improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
  Medscape Blogs, April 20, 2022
• 3 Novels You Must Read (For Fun) Before Graduating Medical School Reading for fun isn’t often on the top of our to-do lists as medical students. But with more free time, I’ve found a few medical novels that offered insights into medicine and patient care.
  Medscape Blogs, April 15, 2022
• What We Get Wrong About Match Day How can we celebrate happily matched graduates while still consoling others?
  Medscape Blogs, April 13, 2022
• SOAP: What to Expect and How to Survive My experience with Not Matching and an outline of what the newest SOAP timeline may look like in the future.
  Medscape Blogs, April 08, 2022
• How Good Are Your Coping Skills? Medical school tests many skills, and your coping abilities are among them.
  Medscape Blogs, April 01, 2022
• Going Virtual, Both in Class and the Clinic COVID-19 has yielded advances in our telemedicine services for patients. It is important that we prepare the future generation of physicians to provide optimal care via this new platform.
  Medscape Blogs, March 25, 2022
• Transitions of Sleep Cycle: A Necessity of Medical Training In medical training, students learn to switch from night to day sleep schedules. Here are some methods that seem to help.
  Medscape Blogs, March 24, 2022
• Working in Healthcare and Struggling to Be Healthy Confronting hypocrisy in a healthcare system that makes it hard to be healthy.
  Medscape Blogs, March 18, 2022
• Antibiotic Resistance: A COVID-19 Crisis We will eventually emerge from COVID-19, or at least achieve a sense of post-pandemic normalcy, but we must ensure that the pandemic does not pave the way for other infectious agents.
  Medscape Blogs, March 11, 2022
• 6 Ways to Distract Yourself When Waiting to Match Tips for how to relax in a time of uncertainty between rank list certification and Match Day.
  Medscape Blogs, March 10, 2022
• Multiple Choice Options for Paying Back Student Loans Even while attending medical school, it's not too early to consider how you want to pay back your student loans.
  Medscape Blogs, March 10, 2022
• What Benefits Arise From Early Failure When we embrace failure, medical students have much to gain.
  Medscape Blogs, March 03, 2022
• Choosing a Specialty: The Biggest Decision in Medical School Initial career goals may change over the course of 4 years while training to become a doctor.
  Medscape Blogs, March 02, 2022
• The Hidden Dangers of a Medical Career The pandemic ignited a rise in occupational violence to healthcare workers. Posing dangers to practitioners and patients, the violence is also a warning to future docs about the hazards of medicine.
  Medscape Blogs, February 25, 2022
• Why Exposure to Specialties Should Begin Early in Med School How med students can improve their basic understanding of specialties and subspecialties in the first 2 years of medical training.
  Medscape Blogs, February 24, 2022
• Why I Write (and Why You Should, Too) Create like your life depends on it, because in some ways, it does.
  Medscape Blogs, February 14, 2022
• Patients Are Often the Best Instructors in Medical School Interactions between patients and medical students often provide some of the most memorable and educational experiences. Patients offer perspectives that help future physicians develop their skills.
  Medscape Blogs, February 02, 2022