On Medical Memoirs and Online Internship

I have become fond of medical memoirs lately. One thing I noticed though, is that, these stories are not about what happened during medical school but about real-life experiences in the clinical setting at the hospital. These doctors were able to tell these stories because there was one patient whom they touched and who changed …

Undecided Yet?

Today was one of the busiest days of online clerkship so far. But I should say today was also one for the books. I'm on Otorhinolaryngology Department this week which is my last rotation before the phase 2 of online clerkship next month. We had a discussion today about Maxillofacial Injuries and Reconstruction Surgeries with …

Neurology

I'm on my Neurology rotation this week. I presented a case this afternoon during our online conference and I got the most kilig feedback so far since clerkship started. "Congratulations! This is one of the best presentations from the clerks so far!", Doc said. Ugh! I'm so kilig really! For a second there, I went …

Intuitive

I'm now on my third week of virtual clinical clerkship and today was my first day on the Department of Pediatrics. Our first task was to write a history and physical examination of a neonate based on a video shown to us. I have never enjoyed writing history ever since my 2nd year in medical …

Clerkship at a Coffeeshop

VIRTUAL CLERKSHIP DIARIES I had to go to a coffeeshop because blackout happened just a minute before our OB-GYN conference. The shop I went to doesn't allow dine-in within their enclosed premises but customers may opt to stay on the tables on a garden outside. I had to switch places every 5 minutes because the …

Officially A Clinical Clerk

This isn't how I pictured ending year three in medicine is like. It would have more exciting and less stressful. There would have been a celebratory samgyup with my friends, a post-finals date with my sweetheart, and a heartfelt thanksgiving Sabbath. But then again, the pandemic. Right. The stress I had to go through in …

The Online Class Dilemma

Recently, I wrote about my thoughts on how unfortunate 2020 is for doctors-to-be. Well the dilemma isn't over yet. We had a meeting with our dean and the head of the Medical Education Unit today. We were oriented on how our clerkship set-up would be for the next two months. Our hospital rotation schedules were …

Things I Learned in Medical School So Far

Upon writing, I am an incoming Clinical Clerk*. A fourth year medical student. A junior intern. I'm sure there'll be more things I'll learn for the next few months but I felt the need to sum up my academic years* in this one long read before my clinical years commence. *clinical clerk - the lowest …

Medical School: The First Time I Cried

Recently, I saw a post on social media from a doctor/influencer asking medstudents if they can remember when was the first time they cried in medical school. It got me thinking. I sure do remember a lot of times when I cried. But when was the first time? And why? Was it because of academics? …

The Unfortunate Year For Doctors-To-Be

This COVID-19 pandemic has brought inconveniences to all of us. Some only to a lesser extent while some has to actually press pause to their entire lives. Whether you're in the former or the latter, we're all on the same bottomline: this is an unfortunate year. This is true especially to us doctors-to-be and incoming …