The Purpose of a Medical Student

To learn the basics of medicine.

1. How the body works (anatomy and physiology)
2. How it breaks (pathology and pathophysiology, microbiology)
3. How to fix it (Pharmacology, surgery and nutrition )
4. How to incorporate the above with the complication of humans who don’t tell you everything and don’t always do what you ask them to (clinical medicine 3rd and 4th year clerkships)

-Jonathan Geach, MD Doctor of Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine