Transcendental doctoring

As a step toward accomplishing this mission, you will spend time on a variety of rotations. These rotations are not infomercials or recruiting tools. No doubt you will like some rotations and dislike others. But irrespective of your ultimate specialty choice, there are important things about patient care that you need to learn from surgeons, internists, psychiatrists, radiologists, pediatricians, family physicians, and from all your other faculty. There are also transcendent skills, skills that cross the artificial boundaries that we erect between specialties. These are the skills of doctoring, and these will be the focus of this course.