Article review: Optimal training during fourth year of medical school

U.S. medical students traditionally spend the first 3 years of training in a pre-determined curriculum. In their 4th year, however, students have significant flexibility in how they tailor their time. For this last year before residency, they shift from a learner-centered curriculum to a patient-centered curriculum. There is a shift in mentality from “I am here to learn as much as I can about medicine” to more of a “How do I best prepare myself for working in a hospital in my chosen specialty?”

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2016-10-26T17:05:41-07:00Oct 12, 2009|Education Articles, Medical Education|

Article review: Standardizing the EM clerkship patient encounter experience

As a medical student, do you remember your EM clerkship experience and whether you saw a wide variety of patient chief complaints? Did your fellow medical student on the EM clerkship rotation, who was going into Orthopedics, seem to only see patients with orthopedic complaints?

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2016-11-11T19:01:58-08:00Jul 20, 2009|Education Articles|

Humorous distillation of specialty personalities

If only I had this flowchart when I was a first-year medical student! I too have always felt that emergency physicians have a little baseline crazy in them to be happy and successful in the specialty.

This diagram has been floating around the web for years now, and I wanted to share with you. It’s a humorous (partly because there’s some truth to it) decision tree on how to choose your medical specialty. Did you decide upon the right field?

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2016-10-26T17:05:44-07:00Jun 25, 2009|Medical Education|

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