Without Enough Sleep, Performance Suffers The story is a famous one, and it involves a third-year medical student falling asleep at a traffic light while returning from a long night on call. Police arrested the medical student because she appeared confused and disoriented, and failed their field sobriety tests. Later she was cleared when she…
Family Medicine: Diversity and Opportunity For those who want to do a little bit of everything, from office surgery to delivering babies, nothing beats the breadth, depth, and opportunities offered by a career as a family physician. The specialty of family practice encompasses such a wide range of medicine that it is difficult to truly…
Mindset or Set Shot? Many students dream of becoming a physician. Yet, once students arrive on campus and settle into their classes, many realize they aren’t quite pre- pared for the higher level of work and, worse still, don’t commit to working hard enough to get past that obstacle. When students struggle, they may decide…
Want to study better, not harder? Here’s how with spaced repetition Even in a problem-based learning (PBL) environment, such as that used by UHSA, there are still things you just have to memorize. Welcome to medical school! But when it comes to memorizing information, the age-old approach of reading the textbook multiple times over doesn’t…
He’s got a collapsed lung! Call the helicopter! The patient was a 15-year-old male who was having difficulty breathing. We were in the backcountry of Idaho on a Memorial Day weekend, and a long way from a hospital. I was a volunteer paramedic with a small ambulance company that covered an area the size of…
Why Are Surgeons in the UK Called Mrs, Ms, Miss, or Mr? Generally speaking, in most parts of the world a doctor is a doctor once they graduate from medical school. Whether a physician or surgeon, they both use the title doctor. And most often times the title doctor is gender neutral. A key caveat…