I wish I knew how lucky I was to have so many resources at my fingertips. I look back and realize how much technical expertise there was at the university level that is sometimes hard to find out in the community unless you seek it out and pay for it. There were people who could help with slide preparations, guide you in purchases of equipment,  steer you in the right direction with regards to resources.  Also,  medical school contains so much expertise in such a variety of specialties.  This expertise can be used to help make decisions and guide career choices. "Carpe Diem" So often we tend to wish our time away in medical school and just endure it. I wish I would have tried to enjoy each day and learn as much as I could because the time in medical school and residency slips away. Before you know it, you find yourself in the real world with a whole new set of responsibilities that can push your education to a back burner. I wish I knew that as I approached the end of my residency I was going to  miss the times when you have so much dedicated educational time in addition to patient care time.  It is a time in my life I will always cherish.
Paul Scheatzle, D.O.

From a wise professor that I had in medical school:  "More mistakes are made by not looking than by not knowing."  From the flyleaf of Kampmeier's book on physical diagnosis: "To heal sometimes, to comfort always." And remember our holistic roots.
Donald Stanton, D.O.

Ricky Goldberg, D.O., Education Chairperson

I wish I knew...when I was a medical student that there is little to no correlation between making top grades in the first two years and your clinical training in the second two years. I had been told and strongly suspected that what was important was what you do during your resiency and that basically is to build good work habits so that you can go on to be an excellent clinician. This has proven to be true. 
G. Kevin Perdue, D.O.

I wish I knew...that when evaluating a patient for carpal tunnel syndrome with the Phalen's test, you cannot perform the maneuver by having the patient push both flexed wrists together. That position will activate the pectoral muscles (shoulder/arm adduction), thereby challenging the thoracic outlet at the same time it stresses the carpal tunnel.  Patient responses will be clouded by information coming from both sites, and you will not know if it was from the carpal tunnel or the thoracic outlet. You must perform each test independently for more specific and accurate feedback regarding the most likely site of pathology.
Benjamin Sucher, D.O.

I wish I knew that there were physiatry residency training programs that are dually accredited by the ACGME and the AOA!
Jeffrey Perry, D.O.