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medical students not socializing enough?

Check out this post on Dr. Shock’s blog on a recent study that medical students are socially segregated from others. 
In my experience, medical training by its nature is very intensive.  I wouldn’t want to go to a doctor who wasn’t intensively trained.  Most people wouldn’t.  That said, the practice of medicine is also a very [...]

networking and schmoozing in the world of academics

I was talking to a buddy of mine who is interviewing at various universities for a faculty job right now and he mentioned to me that some of his interviewers remembered him from his residency interviews. This reminded us of an important point–
Good grades and professional accomplishments will get you only so far. [...]