“MD: The Making of a Doctor”
“MD: The Making of a Doctor”
“MD: The Making of a Doctor”: Video to be shown on Wednesday, October 4 at 4:00 p.m. in 330 Student Union (sponsored by APMS). Go behind the scenes with NOVA and APMS to real ERs and hospitals with seven real Harvard medical students. This intimate drama follows the medical students “throughout the rigors and rewards of their medical training–anatomy and analgesics, C-sections and cardiac arrests, taking blood and giving physicals, broken bones and broken marriages.”
The video will be shown in three segments from 4:00 - 6:30 pm so that students who need to keep other commitments can come and go as needed. The first segment covers the first two years of med school; it focuses on coursework and exams of standardized patients (~ 20 min).
The second segment follows students during the next two years and covers the anxiety associated with taking board exams and the challenges of clerkships in emergency medicine, ob-gyn, neurology, surgery, and cardiology. It records the reactions of a med student to the death of her patient and closes with the med school commencement ceremony (~ 33 min).
The final segment focuses on internships and residency.
