by Dr. Jon Hallberg, Minnesota Public Radio, Tom Crann, Minnesota Public Radio
September 25, 2012
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ST. PAUL, Minn. Another year of medical school at the University of Minnesota is underway, and physician and instructor Jon Hallberg says these new students have some advantages over his generation of aspiring doctors.
Hallberg, who teaches "Essentials of Clinical Medicine" at the University of Minnesota Medical School, spoke with MPR's Tom Crann this week. Hallberg is a physician in family medicine at the University of Minnesota and medical director of the Mill City Clinic.
Tom Crann: First, you're back for a month. How's it going?
Dr. Jon Hallberg: I love it. I forgot how much I really love teaching.
Crann: These are first-year students right now that you're teaching. What are they learning right now?
Hallberg: Well, they have their basic science courses. One of the big ones they have is gross anatomy, so they're actually in the anatomy lab dissecting cadavers with teams, but my part, the clinical medicine part, is learning how to talk to patients, learning how to examine them.
Crann: Essentials of Clinical Medicine what are you doing in that class with these students?
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