10 tips for smoothing the transition from resident to academic emergency medicine attending
Congratulations! You made it through residency. On to the next stage of your emergency medicine career – attending-hood (and for some fellowship)!
Here are ten tips we learned during our first year as attendings at an academic emergency medicine department.
1. Efficiency comes with time. Start off making sure you are methodical. Unlike residency, you will no longer have an attending re-ordering hemolyzed labs or ensuring a negative HCG prior to obtaining …