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A guide to the typical stereotypes you’ll find around in a med school class. This is (mostly) meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
1. gunner: the most notorious of the stereotypes, the gunner is out to get perfect scores on everything, whether it’s final exams, clinics, or random questions in lecture. The gunner is somehow capable [...]
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I figured I might as well start with my home ground. I have to say this upfront: I AM BIASED. I’m basing all this on my own experience and that of other pre-meds I knew–so what can you expect? But trust us a bit, we all went through the stuff that you’re going to go [...]
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While commonly touted as a good thing, the notion of perfectionism is, when analyzed, little more than a source of stress, delusions, and a detrimental sense of failure.
But wait, cry all the self-help coaches, overachievers, and med students. Perfectionism is good! It drives us to achieve, to surpass our limitations, to be all we can [...]
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I went through an orientation of sorts on the importance of self-care both while in medical school and in practice, and it was quite painful to see just how poorly doctors treated themselves. As we heard the stories from a professional counselor who worked with physicians, I found it remarkable that the very traits that [...]
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