{"id":154640,"date":"2023-05-11T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=154640"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:47","slug":"pim-is-committed-to-medical-students-doctors-are-taught-to-care-for-others-not-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/05\/11\/pim-is-committed-to-medical-students-doctors-are-taught-to-care-for-others-not-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Pim is committed to medical students: \u2018Doctors are taught to care for others \u2013 not for themselves\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dedicating yourself to furthering the interests of medical students means working toward a better healthcare system. It sounds grandiose, but Pim den Boon saw an opportunity to \u2018contribute\u2019. The sixth-year medical student hopes that future doctors will learn to care for others as well as for themselves.<\/p>\n

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Working 51 hours a week for your internship, two and a half years, compulsory,\u2013 all of which virtually unpaid. As the chair of the interest group De Geneeskundestudent, Pim den Boon (24) is committed to establishing an allowance for medical interns. Other key issues in his crosshairs are preventing burnout among junior doctors, fostering a more inclusive programme, and establishing a broader picture of what doctors are and can do. Pim used to teach foreign doctors, refugees and migrants for Stichting GIDS, helping them be better prepared for the examinations for BIG registration. Someone who wrote to nominate Pim as Student of the Year commented on his achievements saying: \u201cThis huge commitment deserves a nomination.\u201d The jury agreed.<\/p>\n\n\t

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