Category: Career

• So You Want To Be a Sports Medicine Doctor?

  

  Sports medicine, or more specifically primary care sports medicine (PCSM), is a field that is as rewarding as it is varied. Those in medicine will likely have heard the phrase “no two doctors have the same career.” The job of a general surgeon versus an OBGYN versus an emergency medicine physician are all completely different.…

• Challenging Ideas of Work as Worth

  

  Much of our suffering comes from efforts to avoid suffering. Or, in the words of Carl Jung: “What we resist, persists.” Overwork can be one of the ways that we resist distressing emotions. Sometimes it can be harder to spot than other maladaptive coping mechanisms because work, and often overwork, tends to be praised and…

• Upstander Intervention in Bullying and Incivility

  

  Bullying and incivility are serious issues in healthcare. These behaviors have been associated with distress, anxiety, posttraumatic reactions, medical errors, and even patient death. There are some effective strategies you can use if you are the target of bullying or incivility. And while they are less widely known, there are also some effective strategies you…

• Addressing Abuse of Power Dynamics in Medical School

  

  Rethinking Residency spoke with Sierra Norman, a fourth year medical student and now activist working to change the culture of medical school and prevent the abuse of power directed at learners. We could tell immediately that Sierra was poised and confident, but that this was a difficult subject. She shared with us an incredibly personal…

• The Hidden Curriculum: The Lessons of Microaggressions

  

  “He didn’t mean anything by it when he did that.”  “She only said it because she doesn’t know any better.” “Don’t take it personally. They didn’t mean it that way.” Microaggressions refer to everyday, subtle, intentional, or unintentional interactions and behaviors that communicate some sort of bias toward historically marginalized groups. The term is not…

• Gifts for Residency Graduation

  

  Graduating from residency is no small feat, and one that deserves the perfect gift.

• Stop Giving Luck The Credit

  

  We do learners a disservice when we frame our success with luck. Stories that credit happenstance rather than our own doing teach that circumstances have more control over our success than we do.

• The Hidden Curriculum: Non-Negotiables

  

  What we as teachers can do is take an interest in the non-negotiable of trainees and help them understand how we, ourselves, integrate our non-negotiables into the demands of life.

• The Hidden Curriculum: Specialty Disrespect

  

  Specialty disrespect is a pervasive behavior in medicine. And, with the worsening of healthcare silos and the decline of face-to-face interactions, specialty disrespect is only getting worse.

• Gifts for Medical School Graduates

  

  Gifts for the favorite medical student in your life, about to graduate!