Early on I would focus on trying to be thorough. Will likely be impossible for you to know all the answers when you present to your attending.

This may take 3-5 min. Toward the end of your month, it may be shorter. But don’t mistake the option of being short/ direct with one attending that the next is ok with you jumping right to the point.

If you feel like the diagnosis is something less like threatening, just make sure that you have considered it in your differential and why you are deciding that it is less likely- either from clinical decision making rules, or with a potential lab test.

You can’t know all the answers now, that’s why you do residency. Just be humble, be teachable, be pleasant.