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

Friday evening marked the start of my winter vacation, but it was by no means the start of my preparations for the holidays and other festive winter activities. Since starting my psychiatry rotation...

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Greetings, and happy (almost!) holidays! I am writing this from the pediatrics team room, midway through my second of four night shifts. It's 3am and I am running high on caffeine and sugar from the l...

All the M1s just returned from a nearly week-long Thankgsiving Break to our second Clinical Foundations of Medicine (CFM) week this semester, a course dedicated to exactly what its title implies.  ...

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 ...

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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…

^If I ever write a book about med school, that will be the title. The LRC is the Learning Resource Center, the med school's 24/7 study space and computer lab. It's actually normally not very smelly, i...

Hello again! I will begin with an apology, as it has been far too long since my last blog post. Somehow, the eight weeks of internal medicine that I had remaining when I last wrote passed by more like...

After a month of learning about the heart and lungs, we (first-year medical students) dove into our first day of the musculoskeletal sequence yesterday.  This is the most intensive sequence in term...

Clinical Foundations of Medicine (CFM) and our psychiatry sequence both seem like distant, beautiful memories! I miss them already! A few things that have happened over our last two sequences and sinc...

And...I have made it.  Right now I am sitting in downtown Royal Oak [http://www.downtownroyaloak.org/], drinking coffee and reveling in the fact that...I have nothing to do.  Sure, I need to blo...

It's been a very (at least academically speaking) eventful fall for me. Two weeks ago I took my PhD candidacy oral qualifying exam (which, YAY!, I passed), and since then, back to coursework and more ...