Recap of Ep406: Medical School Milestone - 3rd Year Students Enter the Hospital

This episode, which aired on September 19, 2010, is now available as a free download on our iTunes page!


In the third year of medical school, everything changes.
After two years spent learning traditionally (i.e. in classroom lectures), third year medical students — or “MS3s” — at last begin their clinical rotations, spending long days and nights in hospitals, applying the vast amount of knowledge they gained during the first two years… and translating that to hands-on clinical experience.


In this episode, a group of medical students and two physicians engage in a lively roundtable discussion about the clinical rotations milestone — a time in which third year medical students begin to translate their “textbook knowledge” into “clinical knowledge,” spending every day in the hospital or doctor’s office and learning what it means to be part of a patient care team. In this episode, you’ll hear the perspectives of:

• Dr. Brenda Roman: Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Medical Student Education, and Director of the Psychiatry clerkship at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine

• Dr. Gregory Toussaint: Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director of Inpatient General Pediatrics, and Director of the Pediatrics clerkship rotation at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine.

• Third-year medical students Meera Menon, Arjun Vibhakar, and Shaden Khalaf… alongside Radio Rounds host (and fellow third-year student) Avash Kalra.

Again, as always, learn more about Radio Rounds at www.RadioRounds.org . Also, the free-to-download podcast of this episode (and all past episodes) can be found on our iTunes page!