As a medical student, you spend four years of college and the first two years of medical school studying non-stop for what feels like thousands of hours, cramming your brain with knowledge. But when the time comes to conduct your first face-to-face patient encounter, your confidence is rocked by the challenge of having to establish rapport, extract all the relevant medical history, and complete a physical exam, all while showing compassion, answering patient questions, and developing a differential diagnosis list and treatment plan in 30 minutes or less. Clinic is even worse with a meager 12 minutes scheduled for each patient encounter.Â
Judith Kalinyak
Judith Kalinyak, MD, PhD, is the Director, Clinical Curriculum Integration for i-Human Patients, which develops virtual medical training products and services for medical, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant schools. Dr. Kalinyak has more than 15 years’ experience as a medical educator and practitioner providing patient care at Stanford and UCSF, and is a former chief medical officer for Naviscan Inc.