Neurology

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...

Throughout the past year, you've explored many future careers during your rotations. Month by month, you were a surgeon, then a dermatologist, then a pediatrician. But now it's time to prepare yourself for residency applications and plan for a career in your chosen specialty. Most medical students have questions about the residency...

We have invited the residents and faculty from the Royal Melbourne Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program to lead a journal club discussion about the NEJM article, "A Multicenter Trial of Vena Cava Filters in Severely Injured Patients" found here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1806515. The authors of the article will be...

Communication is key in all relationships. Effective and compassionate communication by physicians and other health care providers has been demonstrated to improve clinical outcomes, treatment adherence, patient satisfaction, and to reduce malpractice claims. For health care providers...

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).

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.