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Diary: Memories of Block 6
After three blocks on subspecialty services (or Neurology, UGH), Block 6 took me back to General Internal Medicine (GIM). Home base....

Diary: Memories of Block 5
While my predilection for Cardiology comes from my career before medicine and its link to exercise, my interest in most fields of...

Diary: Memories of Block 4
Internal Medicine residents are not often thought of as being better off than other first-year, non-surgical residents (surgeons are...

Diary: Memories of Block 3
Every Internal Medicine resident is required to do a number of blocks called "CTU" (Clinical Teaching Unit), also known as General...

Diary: Memories of Block 2
As luck had it, Block 2 bunched my patients by type as much as they were in Block 1. The Powers That Be saw fit that this month, my...

Diary: Memories of Block 1
Another shoutout to Adam Kay for his wisdom and guidance in all things residency. As a Canadian medical resident, we don't have the...

Diary: call shifts
As a medical student, one of the big bad bogeymen you hear about that ruins every resident's life is the call shift. The concept of being...

Diary: Before the beginning - 286 minutes.
Unless they are lucky, most newly graduated doctors end up changing apartments/homes after graduating, and before starting their new...
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