Residency and medical training

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How the residency application process has changed forever [PODCAST]

December 8, 2021Dec 8, 2021

"The collective resiliency of the medical education community shone through the challenges of the past year. In medicine, physicians must adapt to all situations, and GME is no exception. Even in a pandemic, everyone adjusted as needed. Program coordinators and…

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“The collective resiliency of the medical education community shone through the challenges of the past year. In medicine, physicians must adapt to all situations, and GME is no exception. Even in a pandemic, everyone adjusted as needed. Program coordinators and faculty were flexible and creative, while applicants remained passionate …

Personalized, precise, and data-driven: Precision Medical Education is here

Brian Clare & Kelly Dore, PhD

November 18, 2021Nov 18, 2021

This article is sponsored by Altus Assessments, data insights for health care education. As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives in medical education work towards improving the heterogeneity of learners, the weaknesses of an educational system with uniform instruction will…

This article is sponsored by Altus Assessments, data insights for health care education.

As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives in medical education work towards improving the heterogeneity of learners, the weaknesses of an educational system with uniform instruction will become more apparent. Uniform instruction does not take into account the complex mechanisms underlying each individual’s learning goals or …

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How to navigate residency probation

Anonymous

October 27, 2021Oct 27, 2021

Editor's note: At many institutions, residency probation, also called residency corrective action, follows an informal professional improvement plan. It comes with a formal contract, its results go on your permanent record, and it ends in one of three ways: completing…

Editor’s note: At many institutions, residency probation, also called residency corrective action, follows an informal professional improvement plan. It comes with a formal contract, its results go on your permanent record, and it ends in one of three ways: completing probation and moving on, contract non-renewal, or immediate termination.

The journey to becoming a physician is generally a linear path. Sure — there are exceptions, but for the most part, you …

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I’ve broken free from time, and I am a better doctor for it

Sneha Shah, MD

October 17, 2021Oct 17, 2021

How many minutes have you given yourself to read this post? There was a time when none of us could tell time. Imagine not knowing what the ever-moving hands of a clock are trying to reveal. My memories skew, but…

How many minutes have you given yourself to read this post?

There was a time when none of us could tell time. Imagine not knowing what the ever-moving hands of a clock are trying to reveal. My memories skew, but in that era before I could tell time, all I remember is laughter, effervescence, and the occasional injury. (The first time I hit my “funny bone” was quite the scare!)

Now, we …

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Why residency applications need to change

Sean Kiesel, DO, MBA

October 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021

So, what's the problem? Alright, anybody that has been through the process knows that applying to residency programs is a long and expensive process. The issue is not how long it is, or honestly how expensive it is, even though…

So, what’s the problem?

Alright, anybody that has been through the process knows that applying to residency programs is a long and expensive process.

The issue is not how long it is, or honestly how expensive it is, even though those are problems.

The issue is the secrecy of it all from an applicant’s perspective.

As an applicant, you don’t know what is on the deans’ letter, your letters of recommendation, and the residency …

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So, are you committed to medicine — or your baby? [PODCAST]

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September 5, 2021Sep 5, 2021

"As I approach this last stretch of residency, still entrenched in the rigors of training and the intensity of raising three young children under five years old, I am in a unique position of being able to reflect on the…

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“As I approach this last stretch of residency, still entrenched in the rigors of training and the intensity of raising three young children under five years old, I am in a unique position of being able to reflect on the years and look ahead at what I want to …

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Physicians and the importance of servant leadership

Faith A. Coleman, MD

August 9, 2021Aug 9, 2021

Dear resident physicians: Soon you’ll finish residency, and you may be wondering what’s next. Some of you will start fellowships, but most of you will practice your specialty. You may be looking for opportunities that are a good match with…

Dear resident physicians:

Soon you’ll finish residency, and you may be wondering what’s next. Some of you will start fellowships, but most of you will practice your specialty. You may be looking for opportunities that are a good match with your needs and wants. Virtually all of you are looking forward to greater income. I hope that this ending is also a beginning – a renewal of your commitment to the …

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Survivorship bias and abandoning legacy thinking in residency

Elena Keith, DO

July 18, 2021Jul 18, 2021

A challenge: Pick a time during residency training where the burden of patient care and education coalesced with scarce family time or social life, and the urge to quit lingered on the back of the tongue. Think about someone you reached out to, whether it be a co-resident, attending, mentor, and think about their response. Was it positive? Or was it something along the lines of: “You’re lucky, I didn’t …

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A word of advice from one chief resident to another

Marion McCrary, MD

July 18, 2021Jul 18, 20212

Chiefs, remember, one of those interns is going to fill your shoes in a few years. They may model you in that role, so you want to raise them well! As a former chief resident, I have lots of pearls for those entering residency. However, what I will tell you now is different from what I would have told you then. I have since learned that there are possibilities to …

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So, are you committed to medicine — or your baby?

Eunice Stallman, MD

July 15, 2021Jul 15, 20213

I had just received a call that I had been accepted to medical school, and I had immediately pulled up a Google search: "best time to have children in medical training?" I was certain that this was not how most…

I had just received a call that I had been accepted to medical school, and I had immediately pulled up a Google search: “best time to have children in medical training?” I was certain that this was not how most people celebrated news of their acceptance to medical school, but this was a priority for me. A quick scan of the results of my Google search was clear, “Don’t do …

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10 ways to help PGY-1 spouses and partners new to your medical program

Elizabeth Landry

July 12, 2021Jul 12, 2021

As medical programs across the country welcome new residents and celebrate the beginning of the medical new year, they cannot ignore the influence of the family’s adjustment to the success of a physician’s new role in residency. Between leaving behind…

Between leaving behind family and friends for a new community they know little about, with partners training over 80 hours per week, medspouses and partners are oftentimes left feeling alone and unsupported during the …

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Reflections from a former intern

Ni-Cheng Liang, MD

July 10, 2021Jul 10, 2021

July 1 is a day that marks the new era when student truly becomes doctor, where hundreds of residency programs start day one of the three-year or longer residency, a life-changing rite of passage. Where the initial hours start the tens of thousands of hours of experiential full immersion training. Looking back, intern year was one of the hardest years of my training and definitely one of the hardest years …

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Bracing for change: the escalating importance of USMLE Step 2

Karolina Woroniecka, MD, PhD

June 23, 2021Jun 23, 2021

It’s a well-known fact that medical school has grown increasingly competitive over the past decade. While this is true that getting into medical school has become somewhat harder, what is more concerning is that for many students, admission to, and paying for, medical school does not guarantee a career as a physician. A critical part of becoming a physician is graduate medical education, or residency. It is well-known that there …

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The future of residency interviews

Lucas E. Morgan, MD & Nicholas M. Heitkamp, MD

June 5, 2021Jun 5, 2021

Programs and applicants displayed incredible adaptations during the 2020-2021 virtual residency interview season despite the adversity they faced due to COVID-19. Moving forward, virtual features may be integrated with traditional methods for a more equitable and favorable experience. We present…

Programs and applicants displayed incredible adaptations during the 2020-2021 virtual residency interview season despite the adversity they faced due to COVID-19.

Moving forward, virtual features may be integrated with traditional methods for a more equitable and favorable experience. We present here a discussion on the pros and cons of the 2020-2021 “virtual” residency interview season — and ways of hybridizing virtual and in-person practices that reimagine modern interviewing and improve applicant …

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A transformative year for GME recruitment: How the process has changed forever

Jason Reminick, MD, MBA

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021

The 2020-2021 GME recruitment season was transformative. While it was full of new and old challenges for stakeholders, the impact of the first-ever entirely virtual recruitment season will be substantial and long-lasting. Before COVID-19, the long-standing process of in-person interviews…

Before COVID-19, the long-standing process of in-person interviews was considered “sacred” by many. But this system was simply not possible during a global pandemic. In the transition to virtual interviews, applicants saved significant time and expense but the canceling …

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Best practices in virtual residency interviewing

Jaclyn Yamada & Madhumitha Rajagopal

April 28, 2021Apr 28, 2021

The 2021 residency match "capstoned" the inaugural virtual interview season. Interviews may likely continue to incorporate some virtual aspects given the realized efficiencies. But these efficiencies come at a cost: limiting the applicant's ability to get a feel of the…

The 2021 residency match “capstoned” the inaugural virtual interview season. Interviews may likely continue to incorporate some virtual aspects given the realized efficiencies. But these efficiencies come at a cost: limiting the applicant’s ability to get a feel of the programs and adding virtual fatigue to the inevitable stress of interviews.

As two medical students who participated in this most recent interview season, here are a few best practices we encountered …

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Match Day: Leaving behind my polished applicant identity and becoming a physician trainee

Simone Phillips

March 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021

On Friday morning, I will receive an email that tells me where I will go for residency. I have spent most of the last year preparing for this email. Over the summer, I completed my sub-internships where I hoped to impress members of my chosen field (psychiatry) and secure letters of recommendation. On my consult-liaison psychiatry sub-internship, I was genuinely interested in my patients’ lives, but I also felt my …

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You completed your rank order list. Celebrate the moment.

Alexis Holmes

March 8, 2021Mar 8, 2021

I certified my rank order list (ROL), but … What if I messed up? What if I don’t match? What if my list doesn’t get processed? What if I should have ranked programs in a different order? What if, what…

I certified my rank order list (ROL), but …

What if I messed up?

What if I don’t match?

What if my list doesn’t get processed?

What if I should have ranked programs in a different order?

What if, what if, what if …

These thoughts, and their associated feelings, are 100 percent normal. Please re-read that last sentence.

You are no longer in control of one of the biggest decisions of your life and your human …

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How residents can create a positive clinical learning environment [PODCAST]

The Podcast by KevinMD

February 28, 2021Feb 28, 2021

"For me, the team room became a safe space filled with light, stories, laughter, and food. There, my residents helped me read CT scans, interpret CBCs, come up with the differential for bradycardia, and organize my oral presentations. My residents…

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“For me, the team room became a safe space filled with light, stories, laughter, and food. There, my residents helped me read CT scans, interpret CBCs, come up with the differential for bradycardia, and organize my oral presentations. My residents gifted me confidence, advice on the third year and specialty selection, …

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The impact of current work hour restrictions and OSHA misclassification on house staff health

Arielle Gerard, MD, MPH

February 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021

Over 100,000 medical and surgical resident physicians and fellows (combined, "house staff”) are the first-line physicians for most patients in the nation’s 1,100+ teaching hospitals. Maximum weekly work hours regulated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) are…

Over 100,000 medical and surgical resident physicians and fellows (combined, “house staff”) are the first-line physicians for most patients in the nation’s 1,100+ teaching hospitals. Maximum weekly work hours regulated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) are colloquially cited to be 80 per week. Notably, however, they are 80 hours averaged over 4 weeks (88 with “sound educational rationale”), without maximum weekly hour limits, and with maximum …

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