A place for residents to emerge from the dark.
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What is Rethinking Residency?
Rethinking Residency is a place for residents, current, former, prospective and their families, to emerge from the darkness that is residency training and come together to share their stories and insights.
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Overcoming Addiction In Residency & Fellowship
Dr. McKeown tells her story of battling, and overcoming, addiction in both residency and fellowship. She tells her story so that others struggling with addiction or substance abuse can know that they are not alone.
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How I Switched Residency Programs & Specialties
The Nitty-Gritty – how I switched career paths two-thirds of the way through a residency program and the questions I asked myself as I contemplated doing a second residency.
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Using Emotional Regulation for Effective De-Escalation
For many physicians and other healthcare professionals, the threat of workplace violence is something that they feel underprepared to manage. Statistics consistently show that there is an epidemic of violence in hospital and healthcare settings. In fact, if you use the metric of nonfatal illnesses and injuries, healthcare is the most dangerous profession there is.…
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Reducing Risk of Violence with Situational Awareness
Back in 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article referring to violence in healthcare settings as “ubiquitous” (Phillips, 2016). In 2018, healthcare workers accounted for 73% of all nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses due to violence, more than prison staff, police officers, and other occupations that may typically be considered more “dangerous”…
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The Weight of Error
Suicide risk for physicians is elevated when facing a malpractice case or licensure restriction, or dealing with other career concerns. These are obviously significant stressors, and they deserve attention and intervention. But what about the distress associated with making a mistake, even if that mistake doesn’t lead to external consequences? The weight of error can…
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Suicidality and Hope for Physicians
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and September 17th is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. Every suicide is an unspeakable tragedy, a loss that ripples outward in waves of pain and grief. The Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine estimates that up to 400 physicians take their own lives every year. While estimates of…
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Grief Myths That Impede Healing
Dealing with grief is a natural, but difficult, part of life. Unfortunately, there are some widespread myths that can make the process even more difficult. We explore a couple of these below: Myth #1: You will progress through stages of grief in a linear fashion. Reality: You may be familiar with the stages of grief…
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Disenfranchised Grief
Have you ever felt guilty for feeling grief? We’ve talked before about ways to cope with loss and access appropriate social support in difficult times. But what happens when you don’t think you have the right to feel the way you do? Disenfranchised grief refers to grief that is unacknowledged or invalidated by others or…
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Now Is The Time To Rethink Residency!
Developed over 125 years ago in the US, modern residency training remains largely unchanged from its infancy. This site may not be able to spark a revolution, but helping even one resident is enough to justify the effort.
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