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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Volume 352:1943-1944 May 12, 2005 Number 19 Next

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I watch the second-year students file into the Ether Dome for their first day of my "Patient–Doctor 2" course. For me, this course marks their true entry into medical school. Here, they will refine their history-taking skills, building on their knowledge of pathophysiology and disease; they will learn how to perform a physical examination; and they will touch a living stranger's body as clinicians for the first time. For them, right now, these are just skills to be learned. They do not see how they will be transformed by them. They know that these newfound abilities will open the door . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Treadway is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

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