Beginning with the whirlwind of morning hospital rounds and surgery, medical residents face daily routines jam-packed with patient consults, reviewing lab and imaging results, admission, discharge orders and outpatient clinic duties.
They make notes, listen to patients and lectures, answer questions and solve problems — all with the eye to becoming the best doctors they can.
Dr. Thomas A. Blackwell is the associate dean for Graduate Medical Education and a professor of General Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
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