Category: Career

• Gifts for Medical School Graduates

  

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

• Overcoming Alcohol Addiction in Residency

  

  We hope that Dr. D’s story can inspire others to seek help or treatment and encourage those who see physicians struggling to speak up and lend a hand.  

• The Hidden Curriculum: Asking Permission

  

  “Do you mind if I sit on your bed?” It was my third year of medical school during my internal medicine rotation. My attending asked this question to a patient we were seeing on the wards. The question itself struck me as interesting. 

• The Hidden Curriculum of Medical Training

  

  While we train students and residents to be experts in clinical knowledge, patient care, and medical research, it may be coming at the expense of another curriculum – the hidden curriculum.

• Advice for Residents Taking Their First Attending Job

  

  It felt like a death; I went through the bereavement process for months. I had never “given up” on anything in my life, and it was very difficult to let it go.

• How to Overcome Early Career Physician Setbacks & Thrive in Recovery 

  

  I shared my past struggles with substance use disorder during training, including a relapse during my fellowship. My career as a surgeon was not over as it turns out – instead, we’re just getting started.

• Match Day Gift Guide For Medical Students

  

  You want to get the Med Student in your life something they’ll love and actually use, but what is that, exactly? Medical students as a population are generally experts at delayed gratification and practicality.

• 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.

• Residency Program Under ACGME Investigation: What It’s Like

  

  I don’t claim to be an expert on ACGME policies and investigations but sharing even one account of this experience means that it’s 1% less shrouded in secrecy and threat.

• Quitting Residency – An Alternative Career Path for MDs

  

  Rethinking Residency was lucky enough to sit down with Chelsea Turgeon, MD, self-described and proud “Residency Drop Out”, former OBGYN, career coach and world traveler. It is so rare to find someone who left in the middle of residency and is not only willing to talk about it, but also discusses it in an objective…