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, […]
IDSA Fellows Meeting: What They Don’t Teach You in Fellowship
I recently attended the 2009 IDSA Fellows Meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina. It is a meeting designed for fellows interested in clinical infectious diseases. It provided a wonderful opportunity to interact with leaders in the field. Over the course of two and a half days, we were introduced to the nuts & bolts as […]
After ID Fellowship, What Next?
Second year of infectious disease fellowship was supposed to be great. It being the last year of my medical training, I was going to relax, take it slow, complete and publish my research, find a job, and just chill. My, have I been mistaken. Second year is certainly easier than first year in terms of […]
Another Year Full of Hope and Promises
2009. The year I finally finish medical training. The year that everything just turns out right, hopefully. The year I supposedly enter my thirties. I’ll be taking a rain-check. It has been a miserable start. I’ve been on service since mid-December and it has been crazy busy. I thought the holiday season would mean less […]
NYT: Medical Student Burnout
This past week, I attended my first ever Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) conference. It was a joint event with the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) ICAAC, a feat that has not been done in recent years. To say I was overwhelmed with the educational options and my senses numbed by the extravagant pharma […]
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