Scope is an award-winning medical blog produced by a team of writers at Stanford University School of Medicine.
As a medical student at Harvard, Shara Yurkiewicz, MD, worked in both inpatient acute hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals. The striking differences between these two environments inspired her to become a resident in Stanford’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation program. In a recent opinion piece in the AMA Journal of Ethics, Yurkiewicz argues that the “patient care collective” structure …Read More
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a week during the academic year; the entire blog series can be found in the Stanford Medicine Unplugged category. When I first seriously began discussing the possibility of applying to medical …Read More
There are many things chief residents want new residents to know right out the gate, but much of that goes unsaid. So the blog Academic Life in Emergency Medicine recently put together a list titled “Dear Residents: 10 Things Your New Chiefs Want You to Know.” Each one was written by a different chief resident, as part …Read More
In November of 2010, those in Stanford’s general surgery training program experienced an indescribable loss when a recently graduated surgical resident, Greg Feldman, MD, committed suicide. His death wound up being a call to action that brought about the Balance in Life program at Stanford, according to program founder Ralph S. Greco, MD. With the Balance in Life program now in its fourth year, Greco; …Read More
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Classrooms, research, grant writing, faculty meetings… It can be easy to forget that professors have a life outside of the classroom, perhaps with surprising hobbies and talents. The new issue of Stanford Magazine highlights the extra-professional lives of some of the university’s extraordinary professors, including Ralph Greco, MD. Greco is a sculptor of stone as …Read More
Becky Bach on
Across the country at the exact same time — 9 AM in California — on the third Friday in March, graduating medical students assemble for Match Day, the day they receive their assignments to residencies. It’s a spectacle — a cross between a graduation celebration replete with champagne and balloons and a theater audition with …Read More
