Fitting Into the White Coat: One Stitch at a Time

Maybe I am still stitching my white coat—thread by thread, moment by moment, one experience at a time—shaping it into something that fits the kind of doctor I want to be. Maybe I do not have it all figured out yet. But I am here. I am staying. And for now, that is enough.

Keemaya Gurudutt Joglekar reflects on how every task matters during clerkship and how the smallest act can have the biggest impact on patients.

The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the July 2026 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at https://academic.oup.com/academicmedicine.