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		<title>Good Bye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Month Four]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cadaver Lab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Anatomy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am saying my final goodbye to the person who donated his body so that I may learn something about human anatomy. It is a somber moment for me. Over the past 7 weeks, I have been able to get to know my donor&#8217;s body on a very intimate level. I have viewed nearly [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=712&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning in Med School</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Month Three]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Group Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In medical school, learning takes on an entirely new personality and philosophy. It becomes more important. In fact, I would argue that long-term learning becomes paramount. While this is certainly similar for other professional degrees, what’s different is that once we hit the wards, the learning curve involves people’s lives. This makes learning in medical [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=700&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Female in America: A Risk Factor</title>
		<link>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/10/28/being-female-in-america-a-risk-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Month Two]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Conscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anorexia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my time here at HMS, I have had the pleasure of interacting with all kinds of people. I’ve of course interacted with my excellent colleagues, brilliant professors, trusted advisors, and a few living legends; however, no one has touched me like the patients I’ve spoken with while in clinic, my patient-doctor class, and in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=692&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Studying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitioning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Medical school has a way of changing the way a person operates. The culture just grabs you, snatches you up, and holds you very close until you succumb to its demands…You study! You study hard! It’s kind of weird the way it happens though. It’s not like most of us make the conscious decision to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=667&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deciding What to Learn</title>
		<link>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/09/27/deciding-what-to-learn/</link>
		<comments>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/09/27/deciding-what-to-learn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Month One]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am, week 6 of medical school. Intro to the Profession is becoming a fond but distant memory. The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Medicine course, or MCM (what we call biochemistry), will come to an end in just a week and a half. Then, I will spend the next 5 weeks learning as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=656&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does it Mean to be Disadvantaged?</title>
		<link>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/09/20/what-does-it-mean-to-be-disadvantaged/</link>
		<comments>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/09/20/what-does-it-mean-to-be-disadvantaged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disadvantaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, I’ve been involved with various institutional organizations, programs, and initiatives that focus on some sort of inequity or disadvantage. I’ve attended an SNMA (Student National Medical Association) regional conference, meetings for social activism, meetings for groups that work with disadvantaged high-schoolers, diversity committee meetings, talks about race related health disparities, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=626&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanity in the Basic Sciences?</title>
		<link>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/09/08/humanity-in-the-basic-sciences/</link>
		<comments>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/09/08/humanity-in-the-basic-sciences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Basic Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biochem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flexner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that when I was sitting in my buddy Eran’s backyard at his beautiful Newton, Massachusetts home, I wasn’t exactly excited about my first week of biochemistry, which was to start the following day. You see, I was just trying to enjoy my Labor Day with a few friends, some great food, and even better [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=599&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Doctors: Studying Medicine with a Social Conscience</title>
		<link>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/09/02/future-doctors-with-a-social-conscience/</link>
		<comments>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/09/02/future-doctors-with-a-social-conscience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Month One]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Disparities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Conscience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I could do this forever! Dr. Treadway&#8217;s Intro to the Profession (ITP) course ended far too quickly! The class brought to light several interesting aspects of medical professionalism, cultural competency, and general principles of doctoring. This week we had more training with high-fidelity mannequins. We also discussed a book that dealt heavily with cultural competency [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=534&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Med School</title>
		<link>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/08/28/welcome-to-med-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patient Interaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pediatric Patients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Coat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I can&#8217;t believe my first week of medical school is already over! I can truly say it was one of the best and most memorable weeks of my life. From white coat day to simulating trauma cases with high-fidelity mannequins, this week was full of excitement because it focused on &#8220;doctoring.&#8221; It&#8217;s the reason [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=374&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s finally here!</title>
		<link>http://aspiringdocsdiaries.org/2012/08/20/its-finally-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! I can’t believe it’s finally here; school starts tomorrow! It came so quickly. As I reflect upon my first week in Boston and anticipate the week ahead, I get even more excited. Over the last several days, I have gotten to know many of my classmates very well through a voluntary pre-matriculation program called [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspiringdocsdiaries.org&#038;blog=37442613&#038;post=309&#038;subd=aspiringdocsdiaries&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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