Jay Pendyala
Jay Pendyala is a medical student.
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As a third-year medical student, I always carried three essentials during my emergency medicine clerkship: a stethoscope, a Celsius, and at my fingertips, MDCalc. With a few taps, I could translate uncertainty into structure: the Wells criteria for pulmonary embolism,…
As a third-year medical student, I always carried three essentials during my emergency medicine clerkship: a stethoscope, a Celsius, and at my fingertips, MDCalc. With a few taps, I could translate uncertainty into structure: the Wells criteria for pulmonary embolism, NEXUS for cervical spine imaging, CAM for delirium, COWS for opioid withdrawal. These tools did not replace my clinical reasoning, but they scaffolded it. They allowed me to justify and …
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Evidence-based medicine vs. clinical judgment: a medical student’s perspective
Medical education
I first learned to respect silence over a chessboard. Two players sit across from one another, the clock ticking audibly, 64 squares holding more possibility than certainty. You arrive, survey the position, and wait. You gather information, recall principles, recognize…
I first learned to respect silence over a chessboard. Two players sit across from one another, the clock ticking audibly, 64 squares holding more possibility than certainty. You arrive, survey the position, and wait. You gather information, recall principles, recognize patterns, and only then commit, knowing that every decision constrains the future in ways you cannot fully predict.
Now, as a third-year medical student on clinical rotations, I find myself standing …
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What chess taught me about clinical reasoning and humanism
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