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Clerkship Advice for a Higher Grade
1. Be willing to stay late often to help finish all daily
tasks.
2. Let your supervisor know when you are leaving. Do not leave the
hospital unannounced.
3. Be nice to everybody...even those you don't like. You never know
when that behavior might pay off with a favor in the future.
4. Never ask somebody to do something for you. Instead ask them to help show you how to do something so you can do it more independently next time.
5. Know and be able to interpret your patients' lab and radiology results.
6. Check on your patients at least twice a day, morning and evening.
7. Read about something 6/7 nights every week, giving priority to those topics directly pertaining to your patients.
8. Do every procedure you are offered, even if it means having to stay late.
9. Submerge yourself in the role of the clerkship... be a surgeon during surgery, a pediatrician during pediatrics, etc. Never convince yourself you don't need to know something pertaining to a clerkship just because you don't plan on choosing that specialty as a career.
10. Ask a variety of clinically relevant questions.
11. Only order tests for which you already know how the results will affect that patient's treatment.
12. Take time at least once a week for something completely unrelated to medicine.
13. Stay physically active.
Please contact me with further questions or contact Tammi Erickson to set up an appointment.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Residency Program Director