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  • Expert Consult

    Once You’ve Found the Question: How to Take the Next Steps in Research

    For many medical trainees, transitioning from having a question for a research project to taking the next steps is difficult. Finding an appropriate mentor, getting ethics approval, collecting data, performing analyses, and writing up a project for publication are particularly hard when added to the pressures and stresses of medical school or residency.


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    Five Steps to Improve Your Financial Health in Residency

    When you dedicate years to studying and practicing medicine, you learn that certain steps are required to maintain good health and prevent illness and disease. However, the concept of systematically and proactively cultivating good habits applies to many aspects of life, including your finances...


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    Applying to Residency

    Applying to residency can be an arduous process, both emotionally and financially. To best manage this complex endeavor, it is important to be systematic and thoughtful.


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    Family Medicine, Rad Onc, or OB? How to Choose a Specialty

    For many medical students, choosing a specialty is one of the most challenging aspects of medical school. Although many medical schools are expanding third-year exposure to different specialties to include more time in clinical rotations and a wider variety of experiences, it remains a relatively short amount of time and exposure from which to base a career choice.


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    Mentorship: An Invaluable Relationship for Your Career and Life

    Many years ago, when I was a medical student and resident, I envisioned my future career as a mountain that I needed to climb. I saw myself at the base of the mountain, with no clear path forward and upward. At the top of the mountain, I saw successful clinicians, researchers, and medical educators who had clearly found the path, or a path, to the top.


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    The Art of Leading with the Right Balance as a Senior Resident

    Although every resident develops his or her own style for each of these roles, the following practical strategies were discussed in a NEJM Resident 360 discussion (How to Lead a Team on the Wards: The Art to Being an Effective Resident).


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    Applying for Fellowship: What You Need to Know

    Applying for fellowships is a stressful process. It not only involves making major decisions that will impact your life but it also requires creating a competitive application and preparing for high-stakes interviews, all while you are still fulfilling your responsibilities as a resident.


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    Conflict Management and Resolution as a Resident

    Conflict is a natural part of everyday life; disagreements are bound to happen when we interact with others. As physicians, we often work in time-pressured, high-stakes circumstances and engage with teams comprised of people with different backgrounds and perspectives.


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    Preparing for Clinical Clerkship

    The moment has arrived…it’s time to leave the lecture hall and learn how to take care of patients. Are you worried that you won’t know enough during teaching rounds or have time to see your friends and family? This article offers advice and practical tips on getting the most out of your clinical clerkships. 


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    Addressing Wellness in Residency: Ready, Set, Go!

    Internship and residency are incredibly demanding intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially. This post addresses ways to establish habits that will lead to a successful and healthy transition to the practice of medicine during residency.   


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    Launching Your Career in Medical Education

    If you are interested in a career in medical education, your timing couldn’t be better! Opportunities await as medical education reinvents itself. You can be part of the change and fuel innovation as the need for skilled medical educators grows. Some institutions now offer formal career paths in medical education. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.


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    Note to Self: Principles for Better Documentation

    Notes are often the last thing standing between you and (finally) going home.  In one large-scale survey of internal medicine residents, two-thirds reported spending more than 4 hours per day on medical record documentation and clerical duties; only one-third spent comparable time on direct patient care (see also Chen et al. and Wenger et al.).


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    Keeping Up with the Medical Literature

    As an internal medicine resident, your days are filled with morning rounds, daily progress notes, admission order sets, and procedures. So, when do you have time to continue to learn and keep up with medical research?


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    Opportunities in Global Health for Residents

    Dr. Carol McLaughlin, director of the Global Health Equities Track in the internal medicine residency program at the University of Pennsylvania, writes about what it takes to pursue a career in global health and how can you plan for it during residency.


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    Introduction to Research in Residency

    All residents have at least one scholarly requirement and it is in your best interest to find out exactly what that requirement is before you are up to your elbows in ICU cases. Nairmeen Haller, PhD, Director of Research at Cleveland Clinic Akron General helps you get started on your scholarly activity journey.


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    How to Take Advantage of Your Medical Librarian

    When most people think of librarians, they picture the stereotypical older woman with glasses and a bun who shushes them for talking too loudly. In the past, librarians were the keepers of information but have now evolved to become navigators of information.


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    Journal Club: How to Build One and Why

    It would take more than 600 hours per month to stay current with the medical literature. That leaves residents with less than 5 hours a day to eat, sleep, and care for patients if they want to stay current, and it’s simply impossible. Journal clubs offer the opportunity for residents to review the literature and stay current.


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    The Resident as Teacher

    Despite the hours spent gaining medical knowledge and skills training, chances are that little time was spent preparing you to teach. Yet, on day one you will be expected to do just that. So, how do you prepare for this role? In this blog post, we review high-yield skills and behaviors of effective clinical teachers.


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    Delivering High-Value Care: Why Should Residents Care?

    Residents are not always sure why they should care about practicing high-value care, how they can contribute, or even how to learn the fundamentals.

    Christopher Moriates, MD, Assistant Dean for Healthcare Value and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas, Austin explains why a focus on high-value care is important.


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    Residents’ Roles in End-of-Life Care Discussions

    Should residents have end-of-life conversations with patients or should they be left to the attending physician? Columbia University’s Dr. Craig Blinderman provides guidance and resources. 


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    Managing Medical School Debt

    Indiana University Medical School's Jose Rivera Espada provides guidance on how to manage your medical school debt during residency.


  • Expert Consult

    Tips on How to Negotiate a Contract

    Dr. Julie Freischlag from UC Davis offers advice on how to prepare to negotiate that first job contract.


  • Expert Consult

    Recognizing and Surviving Burnout

    Dr. Richard Brian Gunderman offers guidance for preventing burnout in residency.


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