Healthcare
How are residency positions allocated among specialties?
Hi everyone, it’s been a long time since I updated the blog – something like 5 months. I’m in clerkship now, and it’s been very difficult to find time (and ideas) to write. I did, however, want to put in a plug for a fantastic new Healthy Debate article called How Specialty Positions are Allocated [...]
HD: Why Don’t More Doctors Do House Calls?
Just wanted to quickly promote an article from HealthyDebate called: Why Don’t More Doctors Do House Calls? In the middle of the article, it mentioned a survey: …Akhtar’s sentiment is backed by a recent survey she sent to the family medicine residents at the University of Toronto about the perceived barriers to doing house calls [...]
Are you succeeding? If not, maybe you’re measuring success the wrong way
Every action you undertake begins with three things: Motivation – Why are you doing this? What’s driving you? What’s the point? Goal – What do you hope to achieve? What does success look like? Action plan – How will you achieve your goal? What do you need to do? Most of us understand this template [...]
Is there a “perfect” medical specialty?
It’s day 3 since I started my 30 posts in 30 days challenge and I’m already behind pace since this is my second post.. oh well, just gotta double up one of the days! Last night I was having dinner with a fellow medical student and friend of mine from undergad, and one of the [...]
What IS a Good Doctor?
Hmm, This is an interesting debate. For those who don’t know me my name is Jerome, and I am Joshua’s brother. Currently I am studying first year medicine at UofT. I figured I would give my two cents on this topics because it is a very controversial one. Unfortunately I am more of an idealist [...]
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