A familiar face on my team

I got really lucky with my team for the first two weeks of my Internal Medicine clerkship at Denver Health. My attending just happens to be one of my favorite professors from my pre-clinical years! He teaches biochemistry and endocrinology (nutrition and metabolism). Aside from being an excellent teacher, he's also just an all-around nice guy. He has a calming demeanor; just talking with him, you get the sense that he is fully listening and truly cares about what you're saying.

This is particularly helpful since I have been struggling a bit with some anxiety surrounding oral presentations. Over the past few days, I think that my oral presentations have been much better than they were last month at PSL. This is partly because I have more confidence stemming from more experience and exposure, though I also attribute this improvement in part to decreased performance anxiety in this new learning environment. It's not really what I was expecting from Denver Health.

Both my resident and intern are also excellent, but I'm only with them through the end of the week before they rotate to a new team. I wish that I had more time working with them, too.