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• How Can I Avoid Getting Jaded? Do you sometimes feel angry or even hateful toward patients? Here's how to reclaim your compassion.
  Ask the Experts, May 2012
• Difficult Patients: How to Deal With Them Medical students have less authority and experience in dealing with irate or uncooperative patients. Learn how to cope.
  Ask the Experts, March 2012
• Four Tips for Handling Histories and Physicals Nervous about examining patients and asking questions? Learn how to set yourself and your patients at ease.
  Ask the Experts, March 2012
• Change Is the Only Constant How do I cope with the number and pace of transitions that take place in medical school?
  Ask the Experts, March 2012
• How Can I Find the Right Study Partners? You can reap significant benefits if you find a classmate or a group of students to study together.
  Ask the Experts, March 2012
• Can Students Date Attendings? Follow this advice to avoid a potentially uncomfortable situation.
  Ask the Experts, February 2012
• What to Expect When You're an Intern Although it's a big change, internship, in some ways, is an extension of your medical school training. Read more about how your responsibility will change.
  Ask the Experts, January 2012
• Training for Marathon USMLE Exams To get ready for the USMLE and other lengthy exams, you must build up your test-taking endurance. Here's how to get started.
  Ask the Experts, January 2012
• Fighting First-Year Stress in Medical School It's normal to feel anxious during your first year. Follow this advice to cope with all of the changes.
  Ask the Experts, January 2012
• How Should I Handle Negative Comments About My Specialty? Every specialty comes with its own stereotypes. Read on for tips on how to cope with disparaging remarks about your chosen field.
  Ask the Experts, November 2011
• How Can I Excel on a Rotation I Don't Like? You are not going to love every rotation in your third year. Follow this advice to make the most of your least favorite clerkships.
  Ask the Experts, November 2011
• How Do I Develop a Residency Rank List? Choosing a residency can be overwhelming. Follow these steps to narrow the list of programs that will help fulfill your personal and professional goals.
  Ask the Experts, October 2011
• How Should I Prepare for Residency Interviews? These tips should help you ace your upcoming interviews with residency programs.
  Ask the Experts, October 2011
• College Students and Adderall: What's Going On? College students seeking an "edge" are turning to stimulants such as Adderall. It's a serious problem that can't be ignored.
  Ask the Experts, October 2011
• I'm Bullied By Nurses -- What Can I Do? A physician who claims that bullying and maligning by nurses has harmed his reputation asks for advice.
  Legal and Professional Issues for Nurses, October 2011
• What if I Don't Want to Do a Residency? Medical students who feel they aren't cut out for clinical work have numerous options.
  Ask the Experts, October 2011
• How Can I Combine My Passions for Medicine and Art? For those wanting to get their art fix, several conferences, writers, and programs provide a good place to start.
  Ask the Experts, October 2011
• How Can I Recover From a Bad Evaluation? If you've received negative feedback on one of your rotations, follow this advice to remain levelheaded and make the most of the situation.
  Ask the Experts, September 2011
• How Can I Thrive on My Surgery Clerkship? Follow these tips to become a valued member of your surgical team.
  Ask the Experts, September 2011
• How Can I Handle a Shortened Preclinical Curriculum? How can med students learn everything that they need to know when schools truncate the basic science years?
  Ask the Experts, September 2011

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