Resident Lounge

We have invited the residents and faculty from New York Presbyterian Hospital Queens Internal Medicine Residency Program to lead a journal club discussion about the NEJM article, "CT or Invasive Coronary Angiography in Stable Chest Pain.” The authors will be on hand to answer questions about their research. Come and be a part of the...

It was a couple of months into my second year of internal medicine residency. One of my patients canceled a 4 pm appointment. The spot was immediately filled with an urgent visit by another patient in our clinic. I had been working on improving my efficiency in the clinical setting since the start of my residency, and I had fallen into a rhythm of...

Physician well-being has long been an issue in all medical fields, but especially in primary care — the concept of well-being is to heal the healers. Right now, this is especially important to those who have are burdened with burnout and the COVID-19 pandemic. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the AAFP Physician Health and...

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...

In this Graphic Perspective, a medical student gets a taste of the life of an oldfashioned country doctor — the simplicity, the deep human connections … and the threat of extinction, as corporate medicine makes inroads into rural areas.

We have invited the residents and faculty from The East Tennessee State University Internal Medicine Residency Program to lead a journal club discussion about the NEJM article, "Balanced Multielectrolyte Solution versus Saline in Critically Ill Adults” and the NEJM Evidence article, “Balanced Crystalloids versus Saline in Critically Ill Adults — A...

We have invited the residents and faculty from The Christ Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program to lead a journal club discussion about the NEJM article, "Trial of Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Older Patients with Hypertension.” The authors will be on hand to answer questions about their research. Come and be a part of the...

We have invited the residents and faculty from the Saint Vincent Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program to lead a journal club discussion about the NEJM article, "Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction.” The authors will be on hand to answer questions about their research. Come and be a part of the...

The coronavirus pandemic has meant that for one of the first times ever, the entire world is experiencing the same thing at the same time. It has given me pause to think though, isn’t this exactly what climate change has been trying to highlight all along- that climate...

African-American physicians-in-training may be isolated within the walls of their institutions, alienated by their patients, and disconnected from their training programs. Listen to the challenges and aspirations of some inspiring African-American residents in the latest episode of this podcast series.

Competency-based medical education holds the promise of producing a bettertrained workforce — and for many physicians, this training could be accomplished within a shorter time frame.