MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'clerkship'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:37:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3872617&cid=t_337742_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2010%2F08%2F17%2Flearning-eldercare-in-nongeriatric-clerkship-is-a-myth%2F I see a lot of elderly patients while treating severe depression. I do. According to recent research during medical clerkship on an internal ward is not the same as a specialized geriatric rotation. A geriatric rotation is more effective than a traditional clerkship for medical students to understand and to care for an aging population. So why is this important. Well the authors do have a point. In these days and in the coming decades in Western societies the proportion of elderly well outnumber the amount of children. Nevertheless, our medical students receive clerkship on pediatrics but not in geriatrics. Moreover, Many students and faculty believe that, because students see older adults in most clinical rotations, the students are acquiring the knowledge and skills needed to work with o... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3872617 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:59:08 +0100 3872617 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3342719&cid=t_337742_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fformal-informal-and-hidden-curricula-of-a-psychiatry-clerkship%2F Both the hidden and informal curriculum take place after or next to the theoretical teaching, the formal teaching and has an important part in the shaping of the medical students’ professionalism and professional values. Moreover, these forms of the curriculum have a major impact on the learning potential of med students. Yet little is known about this subject. A lot has been written but only from a theoretical stand point. I’ve written about the hidden and informal curriculum in a previous post. Most of the research to date has been generally focused on the undergraduate and graduate medical curricula in general. This time we’ll talk about the formal, informal, and hidden curricula of a psychiatry clerkship. During clerkship medical students are confronted the most with the ... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3342719 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:21:06 +0100 3342719 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441392&cid=t_337742_93_f&fid=36525&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuvamedicine.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F25%2Fmemorial-day-at-the-veterans-hospital%2F Typical Wound Rounds It was one of those typical wound rounds days at our VA Hospital. We made our (the complete vascular surgical team) over to the long-term care wing of the hospital to do our weekly check of patients who didn’t have formal vascular clinic appointments or who were bedridden with chronic wounds. The mid-level practitioners would put names of patients on a list at the nurses station for us to check. The patients who were ambulatory or wheel-chair bound would return to their rooms so that we could check them as we made our way down a T-shaped hallway with two long wings. The entire process generally took from 2-4 hours depending on how many patients to see and how extensive the wounds were and what care was needed. The hallways Most of the rooms down these hallways we... NJBMD's Blog from Student Doctor Network blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441392 Mon, 25 May 2009 22:37:12 +0100 2441392 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1661249&cid=t_337742_93_f&fid=36982&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprep4md.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Flinks-to-top-10-us-medical-schools.html Top 10 American Medical Schools (research) Harvard UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaWashington University in St. LouisUniversity of California–San FranciscoUniversity of WashingtonStanford UniversityDuke UniversityYale UniversityBaylor College of Medicine (TX)Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY) (Source: My M.D. Journey!) My M.D. Journey! blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1661249 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:02:00 +0100 1661249 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1325122&cid=t_337742_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstoryofhealing.com%2F2008%2F03%2F25%2Ftop-3-thoughtful-reads-today-plus-an-overdue-rant%2F 1. Panda Bear, M.D.’s Defending the Pie. A clarifying thought on medical quackery, “dis-ease”, and what one should be conscious of as a potential patient. Sure, anybody can see somebody with a cold or some other minor complaint and the odds are good that nothing they do, provided they don’t get too jiggy with it, will do much harm. But let’s suppose that you have never rotated on a medical service or done your share of critical care. Suppose you have never worked in an emergency department or spent a few sloppy months on the labor and delivery floor. Imagine, if you can, seeing a provider for your family’s medical care who is treating your kids but has never had a lick of formal pediatric training or so little that she has never seen the really bad pediatric disease... the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1325122 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:16:27 +0100 1325122 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=948688&cid=t_337742_93_f&fid=36525&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuvamedicine.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F12%2Fsurgical-clerkship-101-part-3%2F This is the last in my series about surgical clerkship. In this essay, I thought I would address some of the things that can go wrong and present some strategies to fix them or do “damage control”. Misunderstandings or Miscommunication - Communication in medicine - any specialty- is a key component. Learning to listen carefully to your patients, your colleagues and your teachers is of paramount importance. Sometimes anxiety or time prevents you from actually “hearing” the message. This happens to everyone and especially to people who are trying to juggle several tasks at the same time. If you make a mistake, own up to it, apologize and move on. Don’t internalize and don’t personalize anything on any clinical rotation. It is very easy to miscommunicate wh... NJBMD's Blog from Student Doctor Network blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=948688 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:11:09 +0100 948688 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=948689&cid=t_337742_93_f&fid=36525&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuvamedicine.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F11%2Fsurgical-clerkship-101-part-2%2F This is the second of a three-part series to help you get the most out of your third-year surgical clerkship. Since this is one of the most important required clerkships, I thought I would spend some time on this one. The subject matter of this essay will be scrubbing and assisting in the OR along with handling some of the “pimp” questions that frequently come during the cases. Your first tour at the scrub sink need not be intimidating as long as you keep a couple of things in mind. First, you need to be dressed properly. By proper dress, I mean clean hospital scrubs with no T-shirt sleeves below the level of the scrub sleeve. You need to have your hair completely covered (no bangs sticking out ladies) by scrub cap or “shower-type” cap.  These caps should be clean and ideally, dis... NJBMD's Blog from Student Doctor Network blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=948689 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:33:51 +0100 948689 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=948690&cid=t_337742_93_f&fid=36525&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuvamedicine.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F10%2Fsurgical-clerkship-101-part-1%2F I thought I would take this opportunity to spend some time listing some helpful hints to moving through your surgical clerkship seamlessly. Surgery is one the the third-year “required” clerkships during medical school. It doesn’t matter if you are interested in surgery or not, you still need to master this important portion of your medical school training. Many student look at surgery as something to be dreaded but this approach will not serve you well in surgery (or any class or clerkship). It is most useful to go into this clerkship with an open mind and a willingness to learn and master what you need from this required clerkship to become an excellent physician. As a third-year surgical student, you will be required to keep honing and using your Physical Diagnosis ski... NJBMD's Blog from Student Doctor Network blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=948690 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:58:43 +0100 948690