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...concentration and others of its size, “is listen to what the student is interested in.”“A lot of people can get lost in [larger] concentrations” says Sarah H. Arshad ’09, who is pre-med and a folklore and mythology concentrator. “I feel like my adviser cares about what I’m doing and she wants to make sure I’m doing well.”SIZE DOES MATTERBut small concentrations may not always mean a better experience in every aspect.While...
...past four years, Diana C. Montoya-Fontalvo ’07 has been so busy with dance and pre-med classes that she’s traded in her nights of “Salsa dancing” for “sleeping.” Montoya-Fontalvo’s new definition of class is “a person who comes out of a hard situation with their head up.” Next year, she sets off for Columbia Medical School, ready to move on to bigger and better things. “I am moving...
...presented a great example of this. Back when Medicare payed $5000 for taking out a cataract, fully half of the class of medical students I taught were trying to get ophthalmology residencies. (Although three-fourths of them had declared "primary care practice in under-served urban environments" on their med school applications.) Now that a cataracts pays $600, there are maybe a couple kids per class going into the eye field. Because specialists did more training, because they use more expensive parts and pills, because they (might) handle more dangerous situations, because there are fewer of them, they tend...
...thing is a medical classic. Just follow the cliches - BIG specialist, little old family doctor. Yes, the impressive title might still be a huge deal for some, but it really does seem that the kids in med school now are a little wiser and promise to be less esteem-driven than past generations. That's good because they promise to be more fully orbed, empathetic humans; but it's also bad because they take a lot more time off. The big egos of my generation pushed their owners through quite a bit of extra hard work...
...Will there ever be a truly general surgeon like my guest attending back in med school? Probably not. At least not anywhere they have running water. The training programs for different types of surgery have evolved too far apart. And, of course, the malpractice lawyers would take the guy's house the first time a patient didn't do well...