As a third-year medical student, Sara was eager to begin her clinical rotations. During her first week, she witnessed an unsettling scene: her attending dismissed a patient’s complaints of persistent ...
Medical school teaches anatomy, physiology, and clinical reasoning—but some of the most powerful lessons never appear in a syllabus. The hidden curriculum refers to the unspoken rules, behaviors, and ...
When he was young, Jason Krastein remembers his father, a nephrologist, coming home from the hospital to compile patient notes and pre-chart for the next day before spending time with the family. As a ...