It doesn’t take long in the practice of medicine, indeed in the training for the practice of medicine, to learn humility. To understand our limits in our understanding of a disease process, in our abilities to heal patients, and in our own importance in the grand scheme of things. Yet as physicians and as experts […]
Care by ID Physicians as Unreimbursed Care
I’ve often written about the low salary of infectious disease (ID) physicians as compared to other medical specialities. Much of this is due to ours being a cognitive field where we think more than we do and to the payment incentive plan being designed to reward volume and procedures more so than medical decision thinking. […]
How I Re-certified for the ID Boards
Unlike my experience preparing for the Internal Medicine re-certification exam, I quite enjoyed refreshing my knowledge of infectious disease for the re-certification examination for the Infectious Disease Subspecialty of the American Board of Internal Medicine (here-forth known as the ID Boards). That is not surprising because I love this field. For the past ten years […]
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 […]
Recertification Time for Internal Medicine
A few months ago I took my recertification boards for internal medicine (IM). I remembered cramming and doing MKSAP at the end of third year medical residency which coincided with the beginning of first year infectious disease fellowship for my initial certification which I passed on first try. Now here I was ten years later. […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Next Page »