It s no secret that the medical training years can be challenging for couples. With call schedules often dictating family life, and moves for medical school, residency, fellowship and attending jobs looming in the distance, it is no surprise that many families struggle to cope. Surviving Residency is written for every medical spouse who has ever lain awake at night and wondered how they can find happiness and stability while their partner is in the throes of medical school or residency. Find ways to take control of your life, manage the chaos and embrace these years. Find detailed information about: Surviving the medical marriage Moving Managing your finances Taking control of your own career Parenting during training and Surviving call

Written specifically for residents and interns, this guide contains updated resources and information on Internet learning; the resident's role as teacher; ways of avoiding physical, violent, and sexual-boundary violations with patients; ethical guidelines; and planning a career.

Covering every aspect of a resident's life from choosing a residency program, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care, and protecting personal and professional relationships, this fourth edition updates important material with new references, resources, and websites.

Surviving Neurosurgery: Vignettes of Resilience is a practical guide to the inner workings of the lives of neurosurgeons, healthcare partners, and patients. To this end, this text serves as a first-hand documentary of the unique challenges faced as one progresses through their career. It is a snapshot in time capturing the experiences of both patients and providers. The text is divided into seven parts that run the gamut of a neurosurgeon’s career symbolic of the seven years of neurosurgical training. These narratives include, but are not limited to, residency challenges, surgical nuances, research and funding, embracing humanity, patient experiences, and overcoming hurdles along the journey. Chapters share the wisdom and experiences of over 100 authors consisting of patients, trainees, advanced practice providers, and attending neurosurgeons.

Residency is a defining period in a physician's life because it is the decisive stage for personal growth, intellectual challenge and emotional stress. It is a major transitional period transforming a medical student into a practice-ready physician. This role-change for the physician-in-training usually takes place in a new setting and necessitates coping with conflicting demands, heavy responsibility and long work hours. Adding to the residents' burden is the ongoing need to manage their financial, social and work demands. This manual was designed to help medical students on this final critical segment of their journey to become practicing physicians. It will enhance the students' awareness of the potential obstacles along the way and provide them with guidance on how to avoid them. The book includes: selecting an appropriate specialty, maximizing the chances of being selected, surviving residency and beginning practice.

It offers 50 concise, easy to digest nuggets of wisdom that will make your life better both in and out of the hospital. It's meant to be read wherever you are: between rounds, on the train, in the bathroom, when you are feeling like you need some inspiration or feel like you are going to crack. Nothing in life prepares you for Residency, but this book will give you people-tested tips and tricks, including (drum roll please) How to: Get 3 hours of instant sleep Get a work out in 4 minutes Make 3 days breakfast in under 10 minutes Manage your time when you have No Time Shake off Bad Mojo Manage Stress like a Samurai And 44 power packed simple things!

It's no secret that the medical training years can be challenging for couples. With 'call' schedules often dictating family life, and moves for medical school, residency, fellowship and attending jobs looming in the distance, it is no surprise that many families struggle to cope. "Surviving Residency" is written for every medical spouse who has ever lain awake at night and wondered how they can find happiness and stability while their partner is in the throes of medical school or residency. Find ways to take control of your life, manage the chaos and embrace these years. Kristen Math shares her own journey of surviving seven years of her husband's residency and fellowship training. She presents detailed information about: Surviving the medical marriage Moving Managing your finances Taking control of your own career Parenting during training and Surviving 'call' Investigate jobs in the work-from-home directory, find a medial spouse alliance in your area or explore the many web links provided. This book is a must read for medical spouses and physicians alike.

An entertaining insider's guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly of med school--with everything pre-med and med students need to know, from day one, to maximize opportunities and avoid mistakes. Cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and recent med school grad Dr. Richard Beddingfield serves as an unofficial older brother for pre-med and incoming med students--dishing on all the stuff he would've wanted to know from the beginning in order to make the most of med school's opportunities, while staying sane through the gauntlets of applying to and succeeding at med school, residency, fellowship, and starting work as a new physician. With advice from additional recent Ivy League med school grads and top-tier hospital residents, this all-in-one guide is a must-have for everyone who dreams of becoming a doctor.

The national withdrawal rate from medical school averages about 1%, but withdrawal from surgical residency programs is much higher, roughly 16%. The drop out risk is greater for white women and minorities than for white males. Getting Cut examines the factors which lead to resignation from these graduate residency programs by observing the dynamic interplay between the institution and individual residents. Professor O'Connell analyzes the current shortcomings in the process of selection, and looks at how the culture, structure, and organization of these educational programs affect the drop out rate once residents have been accepted. An analysis of the "old boy's network" culture of these surgical programs exposes the greater risk of withdrawal among female and minority residents. Further examination of the process of resident evaluation reveals that in addition to being graded on cognitive knowledge and critical judgment, residents are also evaluated on personal characteristics, the most important being "honesty." Professor O'Connell demonstrates how the medical faculty's subjective assessment of these elusive and contestable qualities not only aid in identifying the morally deficient among the technically proficient, but also how these practices promote discrimination as well.