KevinMD March 11, 2023
When I was doing my transitional year in internal medicine, I was essentially bullied for going into diagnostic radiology by my co-residents and the internal medicine attending doctors I worked with. They used to tell me that my “forever job” would be to sit on a chair in a dark room and dictate “correlate clinically” all day long. And I would immediately argue: No! That’s terrible! I would never do that!
I did not have a full sense of the meaning of clinical correlation before starting my diagnostic radiology residency. All I knew was that it was very bad, and I should never dictate this sentence in my reports. I walked out of my intern year hating to correlate anything...
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