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| A – J |
Alexandra Adams
The missing chapter in our curriculum
Morgan Alexander
Scars
Sara Ali
Medical education in medieval Islam
Amira Athanasios
Defining medicine
Henry Bair
A quiet night
Arpan K. Banerjee
India’s oldest medical schools
Samantha Below
The time between our hands
Pamela Brett-MacLean, Michelle Casavant, Shirley Serviss, and Alyssa Cruz
Shadowing Artists on the Wards: an undergraduate, arts-based medical elective
Nishitha Bujala
The medicine in our stars
The “Ne-Uro” mess
John Brock-Utne
A personal memory of Davy Smyth Torrens WIN ’25
Martin Conwill
The benefit of literature to a medical student
Lea Dacy
Medical Spanish at Mayo Clinic
Julia Dahlkamp
Incurably curious: mystery and drama in clinical case reports
Gulmira Derbissalina
The use of television series in medical education
Perry Dinardo
Partial eclipse of the heart
Martin Duke
A Teacher Remembered
A house call
George Dunea
A plea for a continuing liberal education in medicine
The membership examination—then
Intercepted letters: the Wandervogel syndrome
Socrates on clinical excellence
Problems with medical records
The revolution of Abraham Flexner and its aftermath
Reminiscences of a medical student in Australia
John D. Ehrhardt, Jr. and J. Patrick O’Leary
Thomas Jefferson’s medical schools
Michael Ellman
Mrs. Collins and the Body Snatchers
Lee E. Eschenroeder
Aequanimitas and apathy
Patrick Fiddes
Medical teaching from ancient civilizations to the nineteenth century
Howard Fischer
Not as a Stranger: The desperate medical student
Suspicious minds
Medical school final exams: playing the odds
Pediatrics and theatrics
The good, the bad, and the regrettable
Movie review: Première Année (The Freshmen)
Saving the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert Folberg
Saying thank you
Kevin R. Fontaine
On Longcope Rounds
Florence Gelo
Engage the emotions
“Looking at … Looking away”: a challenging and vital skill
An essential attitude of the heart
Not just for the sake of ourselves
Teaching social determinants of health through art
Dean Gianakos
Things to think
Charlotte Grinberg
Wounding words
David Jeffrey
Empathy for medical students
| K – P |
Htet Khine
The “weak” intern
Trevor Klee
Suicide in medical school
Clara Koo
Are we culturally tone-deaf?
Kristin Krumenacker
Radiology and visual arts interpretation
Valeri Lantz-Gefroh
Bigger than a black box
Jeffery Lee
Cultivating clinical compassion with cultural encounters
Maintaining a moral compass in medicine
Norm Lieska
A window on iatrogenesis
Marco Luchetti
Simulation-based education and training: the reproduction of expert knowledge from military to healthcare applications
Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz
The language of medicine
Gregory M. Marcus
In defense of good pimping: the Socratic method
Matko Marusic
Studying medicine
Learning medicine by writing letters
Graham T. McMahon and Ruri Ashida
The checklist mentality
Elida Melova
Special abilities for a brave new world
Margaret Mitchell
Thank you notes
Samer Muallem
Ex memoriam: a eulogy for a med school factoid
Michelle Muscat
Wilson’s disease on television
Rubina Naqvi
Connecting literature with medicine
Emily Nghiem
Becoming Judith: the connection between Italian Baroque and anatomy lab
Julia Nguyen
A jigsaw puzzle
| R – Z |
Faraze Niazi and Jack Riggs
Certifying clinical competence: principles from the caliphate of al-Muqtadir
Thomas J. Papadimos
Observing the human condition: letters and case reports
Anthony Papagiannis
A classic case of vanity
Eliot’s triad: information, knowledge, and wisdom in medicine
To Sir, with gratitude
In a scan, darkly
JMS Pearce
Principles and Practice of Medicine: Sir Stanley Davidson
William Penson
Using book clubs in higher education
Katrin Platzer
The changing role of the patient in medical practice
Michelle Ponder
The Imposters
Ann Redpath
That reminds me of a story: the language of narrative in medicine
Gregory Rutecki
A Dickensian medical education
Daniel V. Schidlow and Florence Gelo
Verdi and Velázquez: perceptive sensitization in clinical medical education
Mary V. Seeman
Dress makes the doctor
M. Saleem Seyal
Abraham Flexner: his life and legacy
P. Ravi Shankar
The influence of the internet on medical student learning: A personal perspective
Ragging
Filip Šimunović
The first experiment
Tabitha Sparks
Literature in medical school: why, how, and if
Anjiya Sulaiman
A very interesting case
Edward Tabor
Research opportunities for medical students and residents
Learning the vocabulary of medicine (and other foreign languages)
Katie Taylor
Medicine’s old-school technology
David Todd
Medicine, a noble profession
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
Novice doctor at Guy’s Hospital in 1964
Scott D. Vander Ploeg
Healing literature
Michael Vassallo
Compassion and the art of medicine
Boris D. Veysman
Teaching death
Hedy S. Wald, Sheldon Rubenfeld, and Joseph J. Fins
The Holocaust as end stage disease: Medical education as a moral imperative
L. Lewis Wall
On becoming a good physician
Mike Wong
Ports of Calls: toward a taxonomy of hospital on-call rooms
Annie Yeh
Humanism in medicine
David Nathaniel Yim
Everyone’s pain
| Vignettes |
Vignettes
Reading should be a pleasure, not a burden (Somerset Maugham)
Everyone is too busy (Lewis Thomas)
Bed-side library for medical students (Sir William Osler)
Beginnings of bedside teaching in Padua: Montanus
Tales out of medical school (Charles H. Halsted)
Informed consent (Charles H. Halsted)
Liverpool before the Beatles (George Dunea)
Baker-bates-isms (Eric Baker Bates)
The approach to the patient
Clinical teachings (Eric Baker Bates)
From here (Rasa Rafie)
Grand rounds
A day in the team room (Kirin Saint)
The fainting medical student (Howard Fischer)
The middle zone (Alfred David)
What is the point? (Aariya Srinivasan)
Somerset Maugham on studying medicine (abstracted and in parts paraphrased from Of Human Bondage)
Thomas Wakley (1795–1862) and The Lancet (George Dunea)
On Hortons among history (Avi Ohry)
A migrant worker’s journey to becoming a brain surgeon (Saahas Kumbamu)
Musings from my first, on doctor-patient relationships (Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe)
Unequal encounter: An initiation (Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe)