🚀 go-pugleaf

Haravard has a "Longitudinal Course in Clinical Medicine" specifically
intended to get rusty MD-PhD students back in practice before they hit
the wards.  (Actually, as of this year, the course is open to any med
students who have taken time off to do research, which is becoming
increasingly popular).  The course meets for 6 weeks, and basically
you arrange to do a history and physical on one patient each week and
then present to a preceptor; there's also a lecture or discussion one
evening each week on clinical topics (chest pain, GI bleeding, etc.).
It's fairly flexible and not a huge time committment, which is nice
since you can still spend lots of time in lab.  I just took LCCM last
term, and it was a great help--I was very rusty at the beginning
(mainly since it had been 4 1/2 years since I took ICM) but by the end
of the 6 weeks felt confident that I was about back to where I had
been at the end of my second year.  I plan to take it again this
spring to get my confidence up even more before I start rotations
full-time in (hopefully!) June/July...

Cheers,
Scott
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