Andrea Knittel

I learned a lot last year, and one of the oft repeated nuggets of wisdom shared by residents and more advanced students alike was the joy of the year to come. They promised a less intense grading en...

Or, thinking about the residency application process

I'm now two weeks into my internal medicine rotation, and I'm learning a lot. It's been, how shall we say, a steep learning curve, and I finally feel like I'm getting the hang of it; it's humbling t...

Take 1 ridiculous moment as needed for anxiety

I think I'm not alone in occasionally feeling on the edge of hypomania around the holidays...

In talking to a friend about the weather last week, I realized how much of the seasons I've missed this year. While I've been so consumed with learning about medicine this year, the world around me ...

I have to apologize for the long gap since I last posted here. It seems like the days are passing without my really noticing, so I'll give a brief recap of the past few weeks…

Last week as an informal addition to my surgery curriculum I decided to participate in the 2011 Fast-a-thon. In case you didn't catch the short piece about it on NPR, the UMMS Fast-a-thon is a chan...

I apologize for the serious lack of posts that have happened in the past two months. It's hard to believe that I'm already almost 1/3 of the way through my M3 year. Although I have been having all ki...

I finished my pediatrics rotation on Friday, and I took my first shelf exam ever. I think that if I had to describe the test in one word it would be "random." I had expected it to be challenging (wh...

I started writing this post last week, but couldn't find the time to finish it until today… I'm finding inpatient to be much more challenging in terms of finding time for everything. The math:

This is what my e-mail said this morning after my post-defense meeting at the graduate school to review the formatting of my dissertation, turn in the final approval document, and submit my disserta...