The Goldberg Files
Crush med school stress with tips and tricks to excel in your journey to becoming a top-notch clinician.
Crush med school stress with tips and tricks to excel in your journey to becoming a top-notch clinician.
Correlation Does Not Mean Causation
The medical and popular literature is rife with examples of confusing correlation with causation.
4 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #7 Lists (Peg Method)
If someone were to give you a list of 100 words or ideas to remember and then asked...
4 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #8 (Memory Palace)
In the Memory Palace you simply visualize a walk through a place that you know well.
3 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #9 (Chunking)
In chunking, you try to break up a large list of items into smaller chunks, each of which...
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #10 (Acronyms)
With acronyms, the first letters of the items in a list are put together to form a word....
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #11 (Hands-On)
Despite the value of the 10 memory methods discussed in the preceding posts, perhaps the best teacher of...
1 min readeBooks Versus Print Books: Pros and Cons
When I was a medical student, the saying was that the highest grade would go to the student...
2 min readDepression: Often Obvious, Sometimes Hidden
A common problem is that many people may hear about these techniques and not try them, in large...
5 min readStress and Anxiety
When things are overwhelming, many people do feel a sense of loss of control. This always exacerbates stress...
6 min readFatigue In Medical Education
There is so much to know and so little time to learn it. There is a battle between...
3 min readThe Lowly Medical Student
As comedian Rodney Dangerfield used to say, “I don’t get no respect.”
3 min readEscape From The Wards: Relaxing Images
I’ve created a number of peaceful computer-generated images, for a few moments of quiet meditation.
1 min readEscape From The Wards: Relaxing Movies
As part of the theme of escaping from the wards during stressful times, I have created a number...
1 min readCareer Choice In Medicine
It is an important choice, since you will be working hard the rest of your life, and preferably...
6 min readA Career In Infectious Diseases: Pros And Cons
I have been very satisfied with my choice to enter infectious diseases, but like any area of medicine...
3 min readStudying In The Clinical Years
It can be difficult, particularly when tired, to come home and focus attention when the literature does not pertain...
2 min readThe Healing Power Of Just Sitting Down
Sitting down briefly doesn’t take much time. But it gives the patient the feeling that s/he is not...
2 min readThe Importance Of Patient Followup
The spontaneous cure has kept many a healer in practice.
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