Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and thank you for downloading this week's episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast.

Last week, we started our journey, our list of specific tips on how to crush your slow.

The theme was the attitude of an emergency medicine

student. And if you miss that episode, it is important you start there to get tips one through

five. This week, we are continuing our discussion on how to specifically crush your slow.

And this week, we're going to talk about that elusive trait, patient ownership.

In future weeks, we're going to cover history, exam, patient presentations, stuff that you

might expect more on what's important to get a good slow.

But if you want to actually crush your slow, much,

much more important than those things is that you need to demonstrate ownership of your patience.

Program directors say this. You need to own your patience. And ownership starts the moment you

walk into the room with somebody all the way through to the end of that shift.

Ownership, and here's the thing.

Ownership isn't like a task or a phrase or a specific thing that you can do where it's like,

yes or no.

Some checkbox that like you're attending marks off that instantly gets completed.

And the attending thinks, this student has shown ownership now.

Ownership is really more just the summation of a bunch of small,

but high yield tasks and skills and actions and phrases that your attending won't notice

until it kind of evolves into an overall ownership vibe, that vibe that the patient sees you as

their doctor, and maybe not even them.

The patient is looking to you for explanations, that your name is the name that they are

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