{"id":3961,"date":"2009-08-28T18:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T22:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:42:41","slug":"uconn-medical-student-is-%e2%80%98next-top-doc%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2009\/08\/uconn-medical-student-is-%e2%80%98next-top-doc%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Medical Student is \u2018Next Top Doc\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"<p>UConn<\/a>
UConn medical student Dan Henderson competes with Nina Resetkova of Texas Tech University in the final round of the "Next Top Doc" radio quiz show. Photo supplied by AMSA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Third-year medical student Dan Henderson, in Arlington, Va., for this year\u2019s annual convention of the American Medical Student Association<\/a>, found himself competing for a $5,000 scholarship in the championship round of a new radio quiz show called \u201cNext Top Doc.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI figured it would be fun,\u201d Henderson says. \u201cI guessed I\u2019d be out in the first round, competing against fourth-years, but everyone would get a Starbucks card.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henderson survived the first round, then the second and third rounds of a tournament that started with a field of 16 third- and fourth-year students representing 13 medical schools.<\/p>\n

The contestant pool included classmates David Call and Nitin Roper, and Henderson almost didn\u2019t make it to the championship round because of Roper, who was his semifinal opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was ahead going into the final round,\u201d Henderson says. \u201cNitin and I have faced off in \u2018Medical Jeopardy\u2019 before in school, and it\u2019s gotten pretty heated. I tell people, Nitin and I are colleagues, classmates and friends, but never any two at the same time. I knew if I lost, I\u2019d hear about it back at UConn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henderson\u2019s final opponent was Nina Resetkova, an MD and MBA student from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. Henderson recalled Resetkova\u2019s semifinal match lasting nearly an hour because both of the contestants kept answering the questions correctly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was up against this skilled competitor, and I was very intimidated,\u201d Henderson says. \u201cThe final round, unlike the others, was up on a stage, with an audience assembled and lots of friends from AMSA and UConn watching. Microphones and video cameras were everywhere, and it was all being recorded. It was much more pressure. Nina was getting these really hard questions, and she was getting them all right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henderson was able to keep it close, then came a question about a hypothetical patient experiencing acute onset of leg pain: What can\u2019t-miss diagnosis do you need to rule out?<\/p>\n

Henderson, who has an interest in emergency medicine, correctly answered \u201cblood clots\u201d to take a late lead. It turned out to be the difference in the contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a big win for me professionally,\u201d says Henderson, who has put medical school temporarily on hold to complete a one-year fellowship with AMSA. He\u2019s working full-time in Washington, D.C., in a position he describes as \u201ca community organizer for medical students.\u201d Henderson will return for his fourth year at the UConn School of Medicine next May.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to make the rounds in AMSA and introduce myself at the convention, and the contest was a great conversation piece,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Henderson is the first champion of \u201cNext Top Doc<\/a>,\u201d which was created by AMSA and the satellite radio channel ReachMD<\/a>, and introduced and taped at the 2009 AMSA convention in March. ReachMD broadcast each round of the contest from May through August, premiering Henderson\u2019s final-round victory Aug. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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