Give It to Me Straight Doc: A Medical Student Perspective on Effective Goal-Oriented Clinical Education.

The clinical years of medical school are a time when students navigate a new learning environment. Due to inexperience, discordance may exist between veteran attendings and students who do not have their bearings in this new setting. We propose a solution to strengthen the clinician-student relationship by promoting a culture of goal-oriented clinical education via a two-pronged approach.

Call it as it is - Why medical education should reconsider disease eponyms.

Medical disease names should be reflective of the pathophysiologic processes underlying them. Medical education has propagated the use of outdated eponyms when referring to diseases named after individuals who discovered or described the diseases in question. This is confusing and harmful to medical students learning about these diseases and can present a seemingly insurmountable barrier to understanding complex pathologies.