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It gives all a time to sit back and reflect on where you were a year ago
and how far you've come
The secret is when you connect to the patient, in that manner, the patient connects to you
and when that sort of very intimate connection gets established with your patients,
you can often deduct so much from it, because patients open up,
and they tell you certain things that you'd be shocked to hear.
and it's not just important to do this for good history taking,
or a good physical exam, that bonding, that relationship,
you can call it placebo effect, for what I care,
but that's where part of our work comes from.
For over 120 years, the white coat has served as a prominent symbol of caring,
pride, prestige and authority, primarily for physicians.
Today we participate in the white coat ceremony, which has become a symbolic ceremony,
sort of a rite of passage,
across medical and heath education training programs.
The coat does become a symbol of professionalism, to not just provide care,
but to really care for the patient.
This ceremony stresses the powerful symbol of the white coat, with the virtues of altruism,
responsibilty, duty, honor
respect and compassion, that you must demonstrate at all times.
While you are a student, take advantage of being a student,
because once you're out there, you're out there.
You're on your own. [laughter]
You will have a supervising physician, you'll have colleagues to lean on and ask questions but,
my first experience when I got out there, I was seeing patients and I said, "Man, I got a question about this."
And I went and asked my supervising physician and he was like, "Man, I got patients of my own to see!"
You know? Your going to have
people to collaborate with, you'll have a supervising physician to help you but
the clinical decision is going to come from you.
and until you get comfortable with that,that you're going to make a decision on someone's life
about what you're writing, what you're diagnosing, what your treatment plan is going to be,
Then you'll be better, you'll pass that thing,
that level, and be like "Wow, I'm confident of what I'm doing,"
And I can talk to that patient and let them know that they're going to be OK
and I'm going to be here to take care of them. Don't be afraid to ask a lot of questions,
Be very aggressive in your clinical rotations.
If you're aggressive you're going to learn a lot more.
Your preceptors that are taking care of you, they want to teach but if they don't see the interest in you,
if they don't see the energy, then it's easier just to continue on your job and not actually
focus on your education. When you're not a student, when you graduate
It's not over, medicine is a changing business.
and you have to keep up on your education and keep up on clincial practice
so, read as much as you can, even if you can't get through it all,
you can't finish a journal, can't finish an article, every little bit is saved in your mind.
And the way we're going to do this is,
we are going to ask the second year students to help us
don the coats on your colleagues in the first year.
and we're also going to ask our faculty
to assist as well.
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