"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler
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" The best test of a person's character is how he or she treats those with less power." - Bob Sutton
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." - Talking Heads, Life During Wartime
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"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it." - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." - Thomas Sowell
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - HL Mencken
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"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
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"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." - Herbie Hancock
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"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Workouts by month - Goal 200 from 11/1/09 through 10/31/10
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RT @yejnes: My thoughts on the annual exam, etc., final letter ACP Internist, March 2010 http://bit.ly/9FNcXn wel-stated & importantMarch 15, 2010 12:47
A note to the professors, from the "real" world, on the use of ICDs in a fee for service community... http://ow.ly/1jaPy - great postMarch 13, 2010 2:19
RT @paulinechen: New "Doctor and Patient"; Learning to Keep Patients Safe in a Culture of Fear http://nyti.ms/bYA14V - blog post comingMarch 12, 2010 1:35
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These are my personal views of medical school. Some of the views come from thinking back to my own experiences; but my ongoing interaction with medical students continues to mold my thoughts.
I certainly hope some medical students and recent graduates will comment on my thoughts.
You sound very much like our Dean of Students: “Work hard, find some time to enjoy yourself outside of medical school, maintain some hobbies, and stay in good physical condition.”
The stay in good physical condition has been especially stressed. However, I think I’ve put on weight in my 2 months here…I thought the freshman fifteen was an undergrad thing.
I have a piece of advice, mostly for pre-meds. It is very specific, but if the med school you want to go to doesn’t require biochem as a pre-req (and there are still a number that don’t), take it in undergrad anyway! Especially if your undergrad offers a more medically geared course.
Back to Lippincott’s Illustrated Review of Biochemistry.
I found it great (I posted an excerpt on my site, in fact). As an MS1, it’s clearly a time of adjustment, confusion and frustration, and to some degree, disillusionment. In pre-clinics, we get just enough of a taste of what we will be doing with basic physical exams and patient history techniques (I satisfy further curiosity with my Bates text), only to return to the lecture hall to endure the inexplicably convoluted development of the embryonic cardiovascular system. There are so many times where we wonder, “When is this all going to gel?” because we get so much information from such seemlingly disparate subjects. I can only hope the art of sifting through hundreds of pages of text to extract the most relevant information improves over time. Many times I feel like I’m treading water at the edge of a whirlpool.
2 Responses to The 4 year race
Colin
October 6th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Very nice, Dr. Centor.
You sound very much like our Dean of Students: “Work hard, find some time to enjoy yourself outside of medical school, maintain some hobbies, and stay in good physical condition.”
The stay in good physical condition has been especially stressed. However, I think I’ve put on weight in my 2 months here…I thought the freshman fifteen was an undergrad thing.
I have a piece of advice, mostly for pre-meds. It is very specific, but if the med school you want to go to doesn’t require biochem as a pre-req (and there are still a number that don’t), take it in undergrad anyway! Especially if your undergrad offers a more medically geared course.
Back to Lippincott’s Illustrated Review of Biochemistry.
Enrico
October 7th, 2005 at 12:34 am
I found it great (I posted an excerpt on my site, in fact). As an MS1, it’s clearly a time of adjustment, confusion and frustration, and to some degree, disillusionment. In pre-clinics, we get just enough of a taste of what we will be doing with basic physical exams and patient history techniques (I satisfy further curiosity with my Bates text), only to return to the lecture hall to endure the inexplicably convoluted development of the embryonic cardiovascular system. There are so many times where we wonder, “When is this all going to gel?” because we get so much information from such seemlingly disparate subjects. I can only hope the art of sifting through hundreds of pages of text to extract the most relevant information improves over time. Many times I feel like I’m treading water at the edge of a whirlpool.
Thanks for your contributions.
–Enrico C.
(American MS1 in Mexico)