Overall, I found clinical correlations to be a challenging, informative and useful course before moving into clinical year. I particularly enjoyed the different teaching styles, emphasis and subject matter of each instructor as I felt that that component mimicked most accurately what I have to expect during rotations – a new style and different expectations every few weeks. During our time with Dr. Davidson I really enjoyed the way we would each pick a particular disease process potentially applicable to our patient and present it to our peers. I really felt that I learned a lot from that tactic about many different disease processes and those I researched in particular. Professor Lopez had a rapid-fire style that at first I found intimidating but that I grew to appreciate as it kept me on my toes. I also found the cases she chose to be very interesting and liked that they came from either her own or her colleague’s experience and her emphasis on knowing how to interpret labs in the format in which they will be presented to us was very valuable.

I like this style of class and I find that I tend to do well with it. I usually enjoy researching my own topic and find the work of my classmates helpful and informative. The couple areas of improvement that I have moving into clinical year are writing a SOAP note – I still struggle from time-to-time, generally it takes me longer than I would like to complete but I find that the relevant information is usually in the note and listening fully to my peers before asking questions. I know that I will take bit and pieces of the knowledge I have acquired from each professor over the past two semesters and put it to good use during the coming year.

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