Eq.?

Q: What is your EQ?
A: What is most important to becoming a successful physician?

Q: Define the words in your EQ to make sure we are on the same page regarding what your EQ means.
A: successful = to satisfy your patient | physician = a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments

Q: What are some possible answers to your EQ so far?
A: 1. Be comfortable in your environment.
    2. Enjoy your career! To have a career in the medical field you have to do it for because you have a passion for it, not just for the money.
    3. Be well educated! A physician will have gone through many years of schooling.
    4. Be comfortable with people of all ages, sizes, levels of education, and cultures.
    5. Know that you will continue to learn and you will have to reference back ones in a while.

Q: What has been your most important source and why?  Be specific.  If it is a person, name them and what they do, if it is an article, book or video, name the title and author.
A: My first interview thus far has been my most important source, Dr. Ferras. My doctor gave me a basic foundation of what to expect for my future in the medical field. She also mentioned that I should have a basic knowledge of the terminology that is used on a daily basis in the medical work environment. Another piece of information that she gave me, which I found very helpful, is that you see everything that happens from birth to death; STDs, birth, child development, etc.