This residency interview season: Be the rebel
Ours is a chaotic and overburdened medical system. As a senior resident, there is every temptation to seek in our incoming classes more obedient interns and junior residents who would obey my orders as their senior without question. I challenge that we must do the harder thing. The explosive growth in the health care industry […]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 - February 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/bryan-pardo" rel="tag" > Bryan Pardo, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Public Health & Policy Residency Source Type: blogs
How a medical student can help the team during clinical rotations
Based on my clinical experiences, there are ten pieces of advice I would give to any medical student starting their rotations that will maximize productivity and lead to a robust and thriving work environment (your interns will thank you). 1. Do as complete of a workup on your assigned patients as you can. Be thorough […]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 - February 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ton-la-jr" rel="tag" > Ton La, Jr. < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Medical school Source Type: blogs
How To Change Your Career for a Happier Life
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In today's world, there are a lot of people stuck in jobs that they hate. You would be surprised to know just how many people go to work just for the paycheck, sacrificing their happiness for money every single day. Your degree or work experience should not have to dictate the career you choose. You should strive to get into a profession that fulfills you and makes you happy. As the saying goes, do what makes you h...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lilly Herbert Tags: career featured self improvement career advice educational locksmith remote working self education skills vocational training Source Type: blogs
Futures for Young Adults With Autism
Caleb is a 20-year-old with a passion for University of Tennessee (UT) football who happens to have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). When his older brother began attending college at UT, he naturally wanted to follow in his footsteps.
Thanks to the FUTURE program at UT—a post-secondary education program for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities resulting in a vocational certificate—Caleb’s dream became a reality.
The FUTURE program provides academic, social and vocational development after high school. For Caleb—and students like him—the FUTURE program helps them make a suc...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 14, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Emily Clark Noss Tags: Academia & Research Slider Speech-Language Pathology autism Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs
5 Mindful Ways to Create a Healthy Workplace Culture
This article provides some tips for workplace employees and supervisors to create an office culture that is mindful of mental well-being and takes a holistic-life approach; after all, work is a part of (not apart from) one’s life, inextricable from our inherent needs for care, concern, and community.
Tip 1: Try Not to Eat Where You Work
Conventionally, we do not work in the shower, nor eat where we sleep, but why do we so often cram our food down while steering the wheel of work? Even if just for a brief moment, taking a food break can significantly boost brain power, mood, and/or attitude. Encouraging staff to step away...
Source: World of Psychology - December 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Industrial and Workplace Mental Health America Publishers healthy workplace culture Workplace Environment workplace mental health Source Type: blogs
Why mentors are so important in medicine
This article is sponsored by Careers by KevinMD.com. After spending a decade in college and medical school, followed by internships and residency, seeking additional guidance at the beginning of your career may seem excessive. You ’ve already taken direction from dozens of leaders; isn’t it time to cut your own path? Yes and no. You’ll make […]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 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/health-ecareers" rel="tag" > Health eCareers < /a > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
PODCAST: Why People With Mental Illness Should Remove Toxic People From Their Life
Living with mental illness means accepting that some things are out of our control. It also means tolerating annoyances like pillboxes, regular doctor visits, and the symptoms we just can’t quite get under control.
But, does living with mental illness mean we have to keep toxic people around us? Do we, as people who are managing a severe and persistent illness, just have to take the abuse that people heap on us because at least we aren’t alone?
In this episode, Gabe & Michelle explore tolerating toxic people and whether or not it’s a good idea. Listen now!
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Source: World of Psychology - December 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Friends Schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2018: Meet The Authors and Read Their Stories
From Jules Verne to Isaac Asimov, science fiction writers have inspired scientists, explorers, and thrill seekers to influence the future of humanity. While Sci-Fi may seem like it’s about the distant future, more often than not it’s commentary on rudimentary technologies that already exist and that are about to mature and reveal their true potential.
The authors of this year’s Medgadget Sci-Fi Writing Contest are certainly in tune with the latest trends in biomedicine, the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into clinical practice, and genetic manipulation taking place in thousands of labs aroun...
Source: Medgadget - December 3, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Art Exclusive Medicine Source Type: blogs
Redesigning Residency for Connection and Resilience
Editor’s Note: For more on the topic of social connection and burnout, please see this Academic Medicine article. For even more on burnout, be sure to check out this collection.
Meaningful connections matter. Meaningful connections are those relationships that nourish us, that make us feel the opposite of anonymous—from a patient’s smile, to a shared laugh with a co-resident, to an attending’s pat on the back. On a day-to-day level, these connections with the people around us sustain us, make us resilient, and prevent burnout.
Having recently completed internal medicine residency, I can attest that medical training...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 20, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective burnout medical education medical student wellness residency residents Source Type: blogs
The scope of diagnosis – some thoughts after attending #DEM2018
This past weekend I participated in the Society to Improve Medical Diagnosis annual meeting. I saw many old and new friends. Going to a meeting often stimulates thinking. Because we often talk about diagnostic errors, we must first define diagnosis. As I listened to talks, observed posters, and talked with colleagues a broader concept occurred. Probably others have considered this, and if so, please send me the reference.
Diagnosis has several levels. A patient coming to see either a primary care physician, cardiologist, emergency physician or someone else (including urgent care, nurse practitioners, and physic...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - November 8, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Encourage Your Teen to Practice Self-Care
We have a serious problem affecting our teens and no one is talking about it. Every year, teens are facing a crisis thanks to an increase in pressure to be perfect. Competitive college programs, unpaid internships for industry entry, mountains of homework, extra curricular activities, struggles within their social group, family and home life troubles. It is enough to make anyone teen depressed.
In fact, there are disturbing statistics around teen suicide. Suicide has become the second leading cause of death among youth between the ages of 11 and 24. Stories involving children as young as 10 give heartbreaking details of a ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tyler Jacobson Tags: Children and Teens College Parenting Perfectionism Self-Help Student Therapist Students Source Type: blogs
Signposting Teaching Moments: Get Credit for What You Already Do
Hospitals around the country are struggling to accommodate the increasing number of patients requiring acute inpatient care while physician staffing remains relatively stagnant. Every time the emergency department goes into divert mode, the natural question is: “Why can’t the residents just take more patients? Can resident duty hours and teaching time preservation just be waived for a little while?” For clinical educators, the census and complexity of an inpatient service has a major effect on the time available for teaching. We ultimately want to provide the best learning experience for our students and resid...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 25, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective clinical educators rounds teaching strategies Source Type: blogs
Day Shift vs. Night Shift: A Consistent Nursing Dilemma
As a career coach for nurses, I receive a lot of questions and complaints about nursing careers, and one of the most contentious and confusing issues for many nurses is whether to work days or nights. Perhaps you, dear Reader, have experienced such confusion yourself.Days vs. nights is an old nursing puzzle that so many nurses face:Do I work nights and get the differential while ruining my social life, or do I work days and run my tail off when the residents, surgeons, NPs, and doctors are on hand all day to send me running with new orders and admissions?When I was decided to go to nursing school, my wife was very supporti...
Source: Digital Doorway - September 24, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Some thoughts on clinical judgement
Thus far I have recorded 8 podcasts for Annals on Call, 4 of which have already been published. The term and concept of clinical judgement enters the conversations repeatedly. Each podcast has had a different guest, yet in most of these conversations I have heard clinical judgement invoked. What is clinical judgement? Do we just use the term when we want to stray from protocol or algorithm? I found this definition which gets us part way to an understanding.
For purposes of description, it can be considered the sum total of all the cognitive processes involved in clinical decision making. It involves the appropria...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - September 20, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
12 tips to help you survive residency
Each year, thousands of newly minted MDs are elevated from mere medical students to — drumroll, please — interns. If that’s you, congratulations and welcome to the world of residency.
Welcome to the world of motivation, inspiration and altruism — where you wake up every day knowing this was what you were meant to do.
And welcome to the world of the hungry, the tired, the poor. And I’m not talking about the patients.
As medical students, our duties were limited. We were there to learn, to observe, to absorb. As an intern, this all changes. Now, you’re responsible for another human life. At times, ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 15, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/priyanka-jain" rel="tag" > Priyanka Jain, MD < /a > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Residency Source Type: blogs
