{"id":2130,"date":"2017-05-31T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/general-medicine\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2017-05-31T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:12:57","slug":"teaching-medical-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/general-medicine\/index.php\/2017\/05\/teaching-medical-students\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Love About My Medical Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kashif Shaikh, MD, is the 2016-17 Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.<\/p><\/div>\n

We all start\u00a0with medical school<\/h2>\n

I still remember the day I got the welcome letter from my medical school. I was super excited and proud.\u00a0My dreams of becoming a physician were now a reality. So, I pushed myself during my two basic science years and awaited my clinical years.<\/p>\n

I bought my first stethoscope and white coat in anticipation of my third year. (By the way, I still have the stethoscope\u00a0that I bought almost 15 years ago, and it\u00a0is the only stethoscope I still use.)\u00a0I started my first rotation in community health sciences and family medicine. I was thrilled! But, the first patient I saw described his chief complaint in a most interesting way.\u00a0My patient said, \u201cI have a gas that starts in my stomach and goes into my head.\u201d Even though I have been practicing history-taking for some time, it took me a moment to collect myself and to complete\u00a0that medical history. Anyway, things got better with time. Nothing beats being a third year senior medical student in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around your neck.<\/p>\n

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Johannes Jansson\/norden.org [CC BY 2.5 dk] via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\u00a0I began my medicine clerkship. By that time, I could take a comprehensive history and physical without losing a beat. I started interacting more with residents and attendings.\u00a0I wanted to be a teacher, and I started identifying role models.<\/p>\n

During medical school, I knew what kind of resident I wanted to be. I wanted to develop the same virtues that I admired in my role models: Kindness, passion, and dedication to teaching, and supportive and encouraging when the medical education process became very stressful. I wanted to be my students’ biggest support in a nurturing environment. I wanted to make learning fun, easy, and enjoyable. And I wanted to guide them through all phases of learning, from the medicine wards to residency applications.<\/p>\n

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By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Gary Granger Jr. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

A plan for teaching medical students<\/h2>\n

As an attending and a chief resident, I have been applying some of the key concepts about teaching medical students that I learned at the APDIM chief resident meeting.<\/p>\n