1) The most important aspect of a medical residency and one that I always pay great heed to --> how well you are able to follow up your patients.
I cannot overstate how vital this is.
2) A lot of residents love talking about how they have seen this case and that --> but they have no case details and have no longitudinal data on the patient.
It means nothing.
3) You discharge your patient and they never come back to you.
How will you know whether the diagnosis you have made or the treatment that you have started has yielded benefit?
1) This was an interesting case that I heard on a podcast yesterday.
A young patient with a diagnosis of Friedrich's ataxia EXCEPT it wasn't.
2) Dr Bertoni from @NeurologyUNMC who was a young neurologist at that time, goes against popular knowledge and makes a different diagnosis and starts treatment.
The patient improves drastically and manages to go home!