Surgeons: Check your ego
How is your ego serving you? Medicine is a hierarchical entity. More so in surgery. There is a linear line of command from the chief to the junior to the intern to the med student to the aspiring med student.“Shit rolls downhill,” we said as interns while we powered through the 29th-hour on-call orRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/diana-londono" rel="tag" > Diana Londo ño, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
Match Day: Leaving behind my polished applicant identity and becoming a physician trainee
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 […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/simone-phillips" rel="tag" > Simone Phillips < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Medical school Residency Source Type: blogs
How the pandemic affects the residency match
Ours is a medium-sized pediatrics residency program. Each year, we receive hundreds of applications. Less than a quarter of the applicants are chosen to interview. Less than two percent of the applicants will be chosen to be our new interns. It is not just up to the program leadership to choose who our new interns […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lisa-sieczkowski" rel="tag" > Lisa Sieczkowski, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Residency Source Type: blogs
A message to medical interns, in the midst of a pandemic [PODCAST]
“Ultimately, our job is a difficult one. It ’s hard to take usual comfort in heartwarming statistics or hollow promises of prosperity when you find yourself loving and grieving your patients. I have found there is comfort and an impenetrable hope that comes from this; this is the life-hack for training: Seek the welfare of the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Residency Source Type: blogs
From 5 Questions to 5 Reflections: A Residency Leadership “Sign-Out” During COVID-19—Part 1
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part blog post. Check back next week for the second-part of this blog post with the final 2 reflections.
As a chief resident and program director in our internal medicine residency program, we set out at the end of academic year 2019–2020 to prepare the annual sign-out for the incoming chief medical residents and launch a new academic year. This exercise is typically straightforward, a practice refined over years of repetition. However, this academic year had been defined by the sentinel crisis of the entire medical enterprise: the COVID-19 pandemic. In this two-part blog ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 10, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective COVID-19 leadership residency Source Type: blogs
A letter to 2020 interns
Congratulations on becoming PGY-1s! Truthfully, most memories of the times around my internship at Rush Medical College in 1991 are a blur. For example, I cannot recall the popular songs, who won the Super Bowl, or even the model of car I drove. However, as clear and crisp as if it was yesterday, I remember […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 16, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/wendy-peltier" rel="tag" > Wendy Peltier, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Residency Source Type: blogs
6 tips for success in residency training
Recently, a few colleagues and I sat down with our six incoming interns during a welcoming round-table discussion. Being the closest member of the faculty to these residents in age and time from residency, I was best able to relate to them and their current feelings. I, too, sat in those chairs in a conference […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/adam-bitterman-and-randy-m-cohn" rel="tag" > Adam Bitterman, DO and Randy M. Cohn, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Orthopedics Residency Source Type: blogs
NIGMS Centers Build Relationships with Blackfeet Students and Collaborate on Inflammation Research
Credit: Murray Foubister. CC BY-SA 2.0 .
As part of its commitment to cultivate a diverse and inclusive scientific workforce, NIGMS continues to nurture relationships between teaching institutions and American Indian communities nationwide to ignite student interest in biomedical science and encourage research careers. This post highlights one such collaboration between NIGMS-supported centers at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman and the Blackfeet Nation, a tribe of nearly 18,000 members that’s one of the largest in the United States.
Neha John-Henderson, Ph.D., Montana State University. Credit: Kelly...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 8, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Injury and Illness Training Trauma Source Type: blogs
9 tips for new pediatric residents
It ’s that wonderful time of year when new interns take their first steps into hospitals as practicing physicians One of us has just completed her intern year and the other quite a while back (but recently enough to still remember some of it), so we wanted to share some tips for the pediatric interns about […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 5, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/gabriella-gonzales-and-alexander-rakowsky" rel="tag" > Gabriella Gonzales, MD and Alexander Rakowsky, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Advice for new interns: How to earn respect the right way
July is a very special time of year in the medical community. We welcome thousands of newly minted physicians donning their spotless white coats and nervous smiles as they begin what will be one of the most difficult but also most rewarding and exciting times of their lives. Reflecting back on that first day as […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/randaline-barnett-kelly-chamberlin-and-carolyn-quinsey" rel="tag" > Randaline Barnett, MD, Kelly Chamberlin, MD, and Carolyn Quinsey, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Dear interns: We have your backs
Every July, the same tired “new interns: be scared to go to the hospital” memes and jokes appear. I disagree. I believe that July is as safe as any other month to go to the hospital. July should be celebrated. Medical students and resident physicians are the lifeblood of our profession. Clinical physicians have never […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mercy-hylton" rel="tag" > Mercy Hylton, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Residency Source Type: blogs
Summer ’s here, teens and parents — now what?
Summer is upon us, and for many teens in this country, school’s already out. Now what? Typical and cherished summer activities like jobs, internships, and camps may be on hold. There is a general sense of uncertainty about what the coming months will bring, and higher levels of worry in cities and states that struggled with many cases of COVID-19. This is going to be a very different summer than usual for many teenagers and their families. As the weather heats up, here are four tips to guide parents in helping their teens plan for the months ahead.
Validate your teen’s reaction to current circumstances
Teens ma...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kathryn D. Boger, PhD, ABPP Tags: Adolescent health Behavioral Health Infectious diseases Parenting Source Type: blogs
How Texas Medical Center Accelerates Medtech: Interview with Tom Luby, Director of TMC Innovation
Walk around the city-like campus of Texas Medical Center (TMC), and you might find it hard to picture the bootstrapped, garage-like digs that one associates with startup companies. But on the eastern edge of the sprawling complex in a former Nabisco cookie factory, TMC has set up the Innovation Institute for these types of ventures.
During our recent visit to TMC, we had the opportunity to tour the Innovation Institute and learn how they’re supporting innovative and promising medtech and healthcare startups. TMC currently offers seven different resources which include accelerators programs, coworking spaces, inter...
Source: Medgadget - June 4, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Podcast: A National Non-Profit is Born From a Random Encounter
In today’s Psych Central Podcast, Gabe talks with Jamie Tworkowski, the founder of To Write Love on Her Arms, a non-profit movement dedicated to helping people who are struggling with addiction, depression, self-injury and suicide. Jamie shares how the idea for the non-profit was born in 2006 after he spent 5 days with his new friend Renee who’d recently been turned down for rehab. After writing about the experience and posting it on Myspace, people began to respond with their own stories, and the seeds for the non-profit were planted.
Tune in to find out how To Write Love on Her Arms helps people struggling with ment...
Source: World of Psychology - May 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Addiction Depression General Interview Podcast Policy and Advocacy Recovery Substance Abuse The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Turning Quarantime into Quality Time
After a short stint at the pandemic frontline, I had a hard time transitioning to the backlines. The sleepless nights, the unanswered“what if”, not to mention the recurring“interns syndrome”, made all the transitioning almost intolerable. Add self isolation and you had a recipe for“Post Frontlining Stress Disorder”. Yes, I coined that term, (Source: The Orthopedic Logbook)
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - April 18, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: Physician Source Type: blogs
