Residency is just hard. Most of the time, you typically won’t have all of your holidays off because you’re working. For some, they never get holidays off because that’s just how the chips fall or the cookie crumbles. So how do you make the most of the holidays whether you’re working in the hospital or […]
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
I know I’m most likely sharing the obvious, but let’s talk about how important it can be to have a great, collaborative team. Right now, I’m on inpatient internal medicine at the VA, and I really love my team. That can be vital to one’s experience. I have one upper-level PGY-2 Internal Medicine resident and […]
Preparing for Step3/Level3: The Last of Medical School Examinations
This past weekend I submitted the last part of a three series board examination that I started in the second year of medical school. My medical student colleagues know these board examinations too well, given that the first two are considered heavily for residency placement. While the first two are taken in medical school, the […]
