Recently on ID Twitter, there was a collective engagement to describe why any medical trainee these days should pursue Infectious Disease as a career (#WhyID). I have myself over the years mused over this thought always concluding that Infectious Disease is the coolest medical specialty. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who […]
Hooding a Medical School Graduate
Last week I attended graduation at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago where I had the honour of hooding my cousin during the Special Hooding Ceremony. Our grandfather, now departed, a champion of academic excellence, would have been so proud. Later at the Graduation Ceremony itself I was reminded of the high […]
Medical Residents and Death Certificates
A recent study has put the process of filling out a death certificate in the spotlight. Barbara Wexelman, MD and coauthors published an article a couple of weeks ago in the CDC’s Preventing Chronic Disease which showed that about 50% to 60% of medical residents from more than half of residency programs in New York […]
ID Consults Roster #10 – 12
By this time in the year, my personal log system had totally broken down. I still have total numbers of new consults I saw each month documented in my personal files, but I wasn’t very good with documenting the reasons for consultation. Of note, our program had begun to require official logs of consults done […]
ID Consults Roster #9
As I neared the end of the first year of fellowship, I got quite lazy in keeping tabs on my consults. As such, with each subsequent month, my roster became less and less detailed. I still did the consults and required follow-up of course, just neglected to keep tabs for my own insight. This month, […]
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