Burnout

You may have noticed that there haven’t been a lot of new posts appearing on the blog lately. That is because your site administrator has been suffering from a bit of burnout. Burnout has been a hot topic lately in the world of resident education. If you are getting ready to graduate medical school and start internship, it’s worth taking

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It’s that time of year again…

Well, it’s that time of year again in academic medicine: July 1st. For those who don’t know, this is the time when all of the learners in academic medicine move up: the chiefs graduate, new interns come in, the old interns become the new PGY-2s, etc. What does this mean? Well, it means that on June 30th, I am doing

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Education vs Service

I was recently part of a very interesting conversation about the balance between education and service in a residency program. The question was whether clinic hours are considered education or service. Is clinic always educational, because there is potentially something to learn from each patient? Is it always service, because there is only so much to learn from doing yet

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