SDN Charts New Frontiers in Partnership

Press Release

The Student Doctor Network would like to welcome its two newest site partners, Medpod101 and My Medical Career.

Medpod101 is a physician run podcast site which offers medical students a new way to
learn medicine – on the go. Case-based podcasts can be downloaded for play on your iPod or computer.

My Medical Career is an online career planning portal for Australian medical students and junior doctors. Created by young doctors with the input of senior clinicians, My Medical Career aims to provide users with up-to-date information about different career options. Their goal is guide you through the process of selecting and achieving a career which best suits your interests, skills and lifestyle needs.

The Hazards in the Chair

by Diana Aziz
SDN Staff Writer

For most people, going to the dentist is a nightmare. Whether it is the sound of the drill, the fear of the needle, or just the anxiety of being in the office, they walk in scared and very apprehensive. Most people do not realize that the entire time they are worried about the shriek of the drill or prick of the needle, the dentist carries that same fear but in a different way. Each dentist can only hope that the patients he encounters have been truthful about their entire medical history.

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A Complement to Medicine

by Brittany Warrick and Sarah M. Lawrence
SDN Staff Writers

As health care providers, we are certain to encounter a patient who uses some form of complementary or alternative medicine (CAM). According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), 36% of adults have used some form of CAM in the past 12 months. Most patients who use CAM do so as an adjunct to conventional medicine. The very real potential for interactions between pharmaceuticals, herbs, and nutritional supplements highlights the need for regular communication between doctors, pharmacists and patients about CAM. Understanding the appeal of CAM is the first step in facilitating such conversations. Read more »

Cover Your Mouth When You Sneeze!

by Veronica Tucci
SDN Staff Writer

John T. Sinnott, MD, FACP is the Director of the Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Recently, he sat down with SDN to give us a glimpse into his career as an Infectious Disease specialist.

Describe a typical day at work.

I don’t think there is a typical day at work for me. It seems that each day is full of something new and exciting and different. One day I may be teaching concepts of diagnosing illnesses to medical students, the next day working on a grant and the day after that analyzing an epidemiologic study. To me the best part of my job is that there are no typical days.  Read more »

Trick Question

by Jeremiah Fleenor, MD, MBA
Author of The Medical School Interview: Secrets and a System for Success

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
James Thurber (1894 -1961)

As the second half of the interview season begins, I want to provide some insight into one of the most common, but deceptively tricky, questions asked during an interview. This question was posed to me in every one of my interviews, and I suspect that many of you will also face this potentially silent killer: “So, can you tell me a little about yourself?”   Read more »

Professional Profile: John Codwell III, DPM

by the American Podiatric Medical Association
SDN Partner Organization

Dr. John Codwell III, a Detroit native, always wanted to be a doctor but didn’t know what kind of doctor he wanted to be. While earning a B.A. at the University of Michigan, Codwell met a podiatrist whose practice focused on sports medicine and who worked with the university’s basketball team. Having been an athlete himself for most of his life, playing football even into his college days, he understood the importance of good foot and ankle care for an athlete. After graduation, Codwell attended Texas Southern University in Houston for post-graduate work in biology. While there he met a fellow classmate who was planning on attending podiatric medical school. “Podiatry grabbed me in two ways — with the ability to pursue sports medicine and with the uniqueness of the field,” stated Dr. Codwell. “You can do so many different subspecialties in one specialty… that’s what made me gravitate towards podiatric medicine.” Read more »

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