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6:00 AM – 7:50 AM: Rise & Shine and Workout I usually exercise in the morning before work. I get to the gym by 6:20, workout for an hour, shower quickly, and drive the 5-minute distance to work, arriving by…
The old adage goes, “Two months for Step 1, two weeks for Step 2 CK.” This may not have been the best advice in the past, and it’s even less so nowadays. How long you budget to study for Step…
The end of PGY3 is a busy, exciting, and chaotic time in residency. You’re applying for jobs, planning a move for a new fellowship, and/or working intense rotations. Amidst all the logistics of finishing residency, it can be easy to…
Once MS4 year arrives, stop and take a look around. You’ll realize how crazy the last 3 – or perhaps even the last 15 – years have been. And there’s more to come! The first three-quarters of MS4 year will…
6:00 AM: Alarm goes off. I am not a morning person. I don’t know why I decided to go into medicine, but here I am. Just kidding, I love medicine. To all you non-morning people out there, don’t worry!…
There’s nothing quite like that first residency paycheck, even if the amount is quite underwhelming in the grand scheme of things. Now that you make money, what are you going to do with it? You can enjoy yourself with lots…
There are few things more unbearable than mandatory meetings about burnout. It usually goes something like this: the institution tells you why you are burnt out, then offers a paradoxical solution to the problem. You are burned out because you…
Here come clinical rotations, the moment you have been preparing for and thinking about for the past two years: • You have just received your rotation schedule. • Each month brings something novel and exciting. • As you enter the…
Congratulations to you for matching! It’s a big deal. Celebrate well and then consider completing the following to make your transition into residency that much easier. Give thanks As you celebrate with your friends and family, don’t forget to thank…
Psychiatry really is a fascinating field. You spend a lot of time talking to people, getting to understand them, and it truly never gets boring. Psychiatry residency is 4 years long and the first year can include rotations in things…