{"id":4069,"date":"2014-10-01T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2014-10-01T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T20:31:35","slug":"year-3-from-2d-to-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2014\/year-3-from-2d-to-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3: From 2D to 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Rachel Brickman (\u201916)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One year ago, my typical Sunday consisted of waking up early to study from notes and PowerPoint slides in a sterile, fluorescent lit library for several hours. Once 1:00 PM rolled around, I was back home on the couch, ready to soak in the mindless hours of football I felt I had earned. \u00a0If anyone tried to talk about medicine during this hallowed time, I\u2019d throw a yellow flag their direction and call a personal foul. When medicine exists only on paper, it\u2019s a chore and a conversation killer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1100\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1100\" src=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/brickman.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Brickman\" width=\"280\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Brickman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now as a third year, I still wake up early to study, but the information comes from journals, research literature, and patient charts. \u00a0I snuggle cozily in bed, sipping coffee as I review topics that came up at the hospital in the past week. Later, as I watch Eli Manning struggle to remain relevant, I\u2019m happy to discuss particularly interesting or difficult medical cases with my friends. \u00a0The words and diagrams from years past have now taken shape as children with meningitis and coaches with cancer. \u00a0Even though I knew it all along, being on clinical rotations has reminded me that I am here not to expand my vocabulary, but to touch lives.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison to first and second year, one learns relatively fewer \u201cbook smarts\u201d as a third year. \u00a0However, the \u201cstreet smarts\u201d acquired are not only innumerable, but invaluable as well. \u00a0I am not the books that I read, nor the tests that I take. I am a student doctor discovering where I and my 2D knowledge belong in the 3D world that is medicine.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/medexperience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about student experiences at Geisel at the Geisel Med Blog...<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Brickman ponders the changes in her Sunday routines and her outlook as she begins her third year of medical school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[418,262,227],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-voices","tag-medical-e","tag-rachel-brickman","tag-student-experience","post_format-post-format-aside","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/brickman-orig.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-13D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}