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Karan Patel is a medical student.

The benefits of early clinical exposure in medical education

Karan Patel
Medical Education
November 9, 2020

Medical schools are increasingly emphasizing early clinical exposure for their medical students. While the traditional medical education format — in which the basic sciences are taught during the first two years, and clinical rotations are stressed during the latter two — are still generally followed, many schools provide their students with exposures to the hospital or clinical settings much earlier in their medical education.  For example, just two months into …

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The benefits of early clinical exposure in medical education

The pandemic has only further strengthened my passion to become a physician

Karan Patel
Medical Education
November 6, 2020

As a first-year medical student, the transition to an online curriculum has posed a unique set of challenges. I am often asked, “How exactly can you become a doctor without having seen a patient, without having put a stethoscope on another human being?” I’ve been told many times already by my professors that to listen to one of the four heart sounds, I should place the diaphragm of my stethoscope …

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The pandemic has only further strengthened my passion to become a physician

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