Resident Lounge

Quality improvement (QI) is a burgeoning field in healthcare that systematically evaluates and improves the efficiency and efficacy of healthcare delivery. Resident-led QI projects are now a mandatory component of many residency training programs globally. In this...

Welcome new doctors! Yesterday you were medical students and today you are physicians! What a scary feeling. Remember that everyone shares similar concerns and fears as they start their residency and wants to succeed. Getting into residency is the beginning of an incredible journey. Savor it, relax, enjoy the ride, and be open to...

After many long nights huddled over textbooks, agonizing over the brachial plexus, committing childhood exanthems to memory, and making surgical knots of any loose fiber within arm’s reach, you have finally received the news of a lifetime: You’re accepted to a residency program! Now you know what kind of doctor you will be...

There were a sea of students sitting in the auditorium, and parents were all directed to the balconies. The sound of trumpets began to blare, and the bodies of the marching band swayed rhythmically. Five minutes after soaking in the music, the ambiance, and the...

One of the least motivating requests I received routinely as a new intern was something like, “… and can we make sure this is a discharge before noon?” I recall a particularly eager nursing manager surveying the resident teams on her unit to gauge our interest in...

In a national survey of 7409 surgical residents, 32% reported discrimination based on their self-identified gender, 32% verbal or physical abuse, 10% sexual harassment, and 38% burnout symptoms. Mistreatment was more frequently reported by female residents, and...

We have invited the residents and faculty from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler’s Internal Medicine Residency Program to lead a journal club discussion about the NEJM article, "Targeted Temperature Management for Cardiac Arrest with...

We have invited the residents and faculty from the University of Vermont Internal Medicine Residency Program to lead a journal club discussion about the NEJM article, "C-Reactive Protein Testing to Guide Antibiotic Prescribing for COPD Exacerbations" found here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1803185. The authors of the...

We have invited the residents and faculty from the UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency Program at San Francisco General Hospital, the UCSF Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program, and the UCSF-Affiliated Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program to engage in a journal club discussion about the NEJM article...

“If you’re in an accident, you don’t want a doctor on the scene. You want a nurse or an EMT. Doctors are useless outside a hospital.” The wilderness first aid instructor paced and surveyed our progress as we stabilized the femur fracture of an imaginary hiker with a...

By all objective indicators, I should have been unhappy in those grueling months I spent as a medical house officer. But the hospital pub offered an egalitarian escape where I could unload — and learn more medicine than in all the grand rounds I’ve ever attended.

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.

With trainees increasingly exposed to a culture that values efficiency, clinical protocols, and specialized expertise over scientific debate and critical thinking, new programs are creating linkages between unexplained patient presentations and scientific inquiry.

As an intern, you arrive at the hospital before dawn, speed-walk to sign-out, plan a route to see your patients before morning report — less than 10 minutes each to see how they’re feeling, examine them, check in with the nurse. Which are the moments that will matter?