Medical Student Life

Intensive Care Unit

Up on the 11^th floor, we gathered around the hospital bed. Upright but reclined slightly in it was a middle aged man who looked very healthy, notwithstanding being in the ICU. We were going to determine if he was still alive. Dr. S opened the man’s eyes, shined in a light. Several of us leaned intently over the bed, searching his eyes for response. There was none.
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US Medical School: Timeline

Outline of US Medical Education

First, a quick summary. Total time from high school graduation to residency completion:
4 years college + 4 years medical school + 3-5 years residency = 11-13 year minimum. Continue reading for more details...

Blocks: An Integrated Approach to Learning Medicine

In a large auditorium, 143 of us sat in our seats. At the front of the room, one of the course directors began to speak. We jotted down a few notes in the handout margins, circling important dates and underlining key information. My neighbor whispered to me, 的 heard this block is the hardest.・ Another student chimed, 哲othing could be harder than Cardio.・ We continued to strain to hear the details.

I saw a few people already carrying the syllabus, the required reading. It was the size of a metropolitan city痴 Yellow Pages. During the next two months, we would have to read through all of its 977 pages and commit the information to memory. 典he final will be cumulative.・ The class moaned in chorus.

Introuduction: An American Medical Student

Hello. My name is Jay Starkey. I am a medical student at the University of California San Francisco. I started medical school in the fall of 2004 at the "young" age of 29.

In my career as a physician, I plan to use Japanese and visit Japan regularly.

From 1994-1996, I lived in Tokyo where I learned the language and the culture of Japan. Since then, I have been enamored. As most medical students in Japan readng this want to learn English, I will be writing most of my articles in my native tongue. Please read on to find out more about me...

Preceptorship: Learning in the Community Setting

At the outset of medical school, I assumed that I would get a lot of "hands on" experience. Actually, this is a relatively new approach to medicine. In the past, students often did not have much patient interaction until their 3rd or 4th year of medical school. However, in recent years the trend is for medical schools to allow students more interaction and earlier, the hope being that students will make better doctors if they start learning how to interact with patients right away. The first year preceptorship is a way for students to gain this kind of experience. It works.