Diary of a Med Student


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From the earliest stages of our medical training, we experience unforgettable moments with our patients - inspiring, traumatic, joyful, and sometimes even humorous events. Too often, as doctors-in-training we talk about the suffering or recovery of our patients, ignoring our own emotions after these events, letting them passively shape us until we dig ourselves into an abyss of burn out and resentment. Diary of a Med Student is a book created by medical students, for medical students, doctors, pre-med students, and their loved ones to look backward, forward, and laterally on the wonderful world of medical school. This book offers a space to reflect on our emotions, process their meaning, and share them as tales of sorrow, humor, joy, or inspiration, told from the perspective of medical students writing in a diary. While the act of sharing emotion is itself therapeutic, reading these emotional challenges that we can all relate to is unifying and comforting, providing us with insight through the lessons conveyed in the light of a variety of feelings. Let this book spark a powerful domino effect of change in medical education: in the way we teach physicians to create a safe space for inner reflection and expression of emotion to ultimately enhance physician wellness.




Success Book for Medical Students and Aspirants


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Success and Inspirational Book for All Medical Students and Aspirants: (Full Color) When you have someone to inspire you, you can do wonders. When you have someone who can inspire you and who is also the "don" or "king" of the field you wish to enter (or the profession you wish to take up), then, even miracles are not out of your reach. Sir William Osler was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding fathers of the renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital. That's a good news for you; a man from the very field where you want to (or long to) accomplish great things. He has frequently been described as the "Father of Modern Medicine". Just as much as he is known as one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, he has also been known for his-among many good things-obsession for books, and for being an inveterate prankster. This little book contains the 52 precious gems that he spilled when he was alive. It contains insights that are directly related to medicine, as well as other excellent success ideas. What you have here are 52 quotes from this great man, all encapsulated inside carefully cherry-picked color images. While you read and meditate on this great man's words of wisdom, you also get to travel to different places through these images. The book can be an inspiration for aspirants of medicine. It can also be of great help to students of medicine, or anyone who is related to the field of medicine. Benefits? 1. You are inspired and guided by his words that can tremendously help you with your career and life in general. 2. You get relaxation and a feeling of euphoria whenever you travel through these images. When you finish reviewing the pages of the book each time, you are more empowered, you are strengthened, your confidence is reinforced and your desire for your profession is even more intensified. 3. This little book can be a long time little companion for you, helping you, assisting you, give you solace and inspiration, and more than everything else, it will keep your mind focused on your definite major aim in life: Medicine! 4. The book can keep you on track and help you overcome days of hardships and difficulties and disaapointments. Sir William Osler is always there to help you with his powerful words. Thanks for choosing this wonderful field. Just enjoy the "Oslerisms." Some Nuggets from This Great Man from the Book: 1. "Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert." 2. "Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first." 3. "Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands." 4. "Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows." 5. "The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish." Scroll Up and Grab Your Copy!




Thoughts For The Medical Student


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An address to medical students by Sir William Bowman, a celebrated British physician and anatomist. In this speech, Bowman reflects on the challenges and rewards of the medical profession, and offers advice to students embarking on this important and demanding career path. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.




The Call of Stories


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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, a profound examination of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery. As a professor emeritus at Harvard University, a renowned child psychiatrist, and the author of more than forty books, including The Moral Intelligence of Children, Robert Coles knows better than anyone the transformative power of learning and literature on young minds. In this “persuasive” book (The New York Times Book Review), Coles convenes a virtual symposium of college, law, and medical school students to explore the phenomenon of storytelling as a source of values and character. Here are transcriptions of classroom conversations in which Coles and his students discuss the impact of particular works of literature on their moral development. Here also are Coles’s intimate personal reflections on his experiences in the civil rights movement, his child psychiatry practice, and his interactions with his own literary mentors including William Carlos Williams and L.E. Sissman. The life lessons learned from these stories are of special resonance to doctors and teachers looking to apply them in classroom and clinical environments. The rare public intellectual to be honored with a MacArthur Award, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a National Humanities Medal, Robert Coles is a true national treasure, and The Call of Stories is, in the words of National Book Award winner Walker Percy, “Coles at his wisest and best.”







The Inner World of Medical Students


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This is a practical and comprehensive guide to communication in family medicine for doctors nurses and staff in the primary healthcare team. It brings together all facets of communication in healthcare including involvement of patients staff and external workers. It shows how to address all aspects of communication in relation to one-to-one situations teaching and groups and encourages the reader to reflect on their own clinical and work experience. Using think boxes exercises and references this is an accessible guide relevant to all members of the practice team.




Thoughts for the Medical Student: An Introductory Address, Delivered at King's College, London, October 1, 1851, on Occasion of the Opening of the Twe


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What Patients Taught Me


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A young doctor writes frankly of her medical training in small rural communities around the world, reflecting on the important lessons she learned along the way Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this stunning book explores some of these difficult and deeply personal questions, revealing the highs and lows of being a physician in training. Author Audrey Young was just 23-years-old when she took care of her first dying patient. In What Patients Taught Me, she writes of this life-altering experience and of the other struggles she faced in her journey to become a good doctor—from exhausting 36-hour shifts to a perilous rescue mission in an Eskimo village. As she travels to small rural communities throughout the world, she attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth, coming face-to-face with mortality and the medical, personal, and socioeconomic dilemmas of her patients.




What Every Science Student Should Know


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In 2012, the White House put out a call to increase the number of STEM graduates by one million. Since then, hundreds of thousands of science students have started down the path toward a STEM career. Yet, of these budding scientists, more than half of all college students planning to study science or medicine leave the field during their academic careers. This guide is the perfect personal mentor for any aspiring scientist. Like an experienced lab partner or frank advisor, the book points out the pitfalls while providing encouragement. Chapters cover the entire college experience, including choosing a major, mastering study skills, doing scientific research, finding a job, and, most important, how to foster and keep a love of science.