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Insights from My FCM Internship

James Reboredo completed a two-week internship in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) in March-April 2020. Though the internship was cut short, Reboredo felt it was a valuable experience and appreciated being treated as a capable doctor in training. He was grateful to one attending physician in particular who provided guidance and feedback without making him feel inferior. Reboredo observed the dedication of DFCM consultants to teaching their trainees despite busy schedules. He came away with an admiration for the holistic and preventative approach of family physicians in managing community health from the ground up.

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Insights from My FCM Internship

James Reboredo completed a two-week internship in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) in March-April 2020. Though the internship was cut short, Reboredo felt it was a valuable experience and appreciated being treated as a capable doctor in training. He was grateful to one attending physician in particular who provided guidance and feedback without making him feel inferior. Reboredo observed the dedication of DFCM consultants to teaching their trainees despite busy schedules. He came away with an admiration for the holistic and preventative approach of family physicians in managing community health from the ground up.

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Reboredo, James Rhandal

Post-Graduate Intern
DFCM March - April 2020

It is sad that I had to attend only two weeks of my 2-month rotation in FCM but I am lucky enough to
have rotated in this department during my Clerkship year. True that this 2 weeks with them is not
enough, but I can confidently say, for lack of a better phrase, one heck of a 2 weeks stay. One person
that I am truly thankful to, I don’t want to name the doctor, but SHE knows who she is, I want to
express my deepest gratitude for letting me be the doctor that I am, for unchaining me from the
tormenting notion of just being an intern. She let me make mistakes and correct me her finest
subtlety without me feeling inferior. I know that if only we were able to complete this journey with
the department, I could have experienced the other doctors way of nurturing, it’s just that, I was with
this wonderful doctor for a week as my scheduled directed me so. The remaining week of my stay, I
get to taste the DFCM way of academic lecturing, mingled with the new doctors who showered me
with kindness, and one in particular whom I was paired with for my first DFCM duty, she was nice,
interesting, and is truly smart. Our Interns monitor(s) who’s very forgiving and amazingly equipped
with miles of patience and the very caring and I believe, pro intern, chief resident. I don’t need to
describe how good all the doctors were to us during the stay, because they have proven themselves
ever since then, clerkship as my vantage, and I couldn’t regret more for not being able to maximize
our time with them. If there’s one thing that is unique in this department, that is the unwavering
dedication of the consultants to teach their “children” and to me, possessing that resolve despite
busy schedule or loss of possible profit, is one admirable trait. All these positive deflections are the
best asset of this department, through this we can truly say that somebody or many people care.
Being a family physician follows a very important responsibility, they are those who investigate before
any other critical medicine practitioners, they are those who cushion the “difficulty” of cases, and can
even answer the medical conundrum first hand. They are those who do not focus only on the illness,
they also focus on the afflicted. They are the managers of health who start at the very simplest block
of a community, envisioned with prevention, education and a lot more. All these are rusty
descriptions of what they do but as strong as diamond, precious, and brilliant.

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