Blog Number Eight - A Game of Perspectives

This past week, I wrote two assessments for ISM. Although, typically this is to be seen as a fairly normal week in the ISM schedule, I made an advancement here in my journey. Here, I understood this week to be a game of perspectives. First, a research assessment to further my ideas and understanding of sports medicine, which I am finding to come with a requirement to better articulate my ideas to create comprehensibility, similar to a skill I have to do for my hopefully successful final presentation in May. But second, and new to my journey, is an interview assessment, where in the following days of a research interview, one writes not only the contents of what occurred in the interview, but also what the interview means to one in the ISM journey as a whole. So, naturally, far beyond my previous blog from last week, I decided to analyze my successful interview with Dr. Barrington, finding that I was able to apply far more things than I originally thought at the time of the interview that I can utilize to better my train of thought in the process. Even within the interview, we took a look at previous steps of my ISM journey, paralleling my change of topic to the majority of those in medical school who end up changing fields. Ultimately, this analysis for me greatly fulfilled my goal that I have set upon myself to always improve no matter what.