I wish I really knew how hard it would be. “It” being these 4 years of my clinical training called residency. Throughout residency everything has been tried including my patience, sanity, mind and marriage. When we are in medical school we are so concerned with graduating and getting to the next step, not realizing that this next step is unlike anything we have ever experienced. You thought medical school was hard but residency brings a whole new meaning to the word hard. You

Currently, I am a neurology resident and neuroscientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. As a neurology resident, I conducted my intern year rotating within internal medicine. In less than 2 weeks, I will be a PGY-2 neurology resident. As I reflect over my experience, it has been a year of tremendous excitement and extreme difficulty. I have grown into becoming a more independent physician-scientist. For those transitioning from medical student to physician, here my words

It's that time of the year. July 1st is almost here and hospitals around the country will welcome in their new interns. To those starting on the wards as interns, this series is for YOU! We're sharing advice from SheMD authors on how to not only SURVIVE but THRIVE during your intern year. Wishing you all the best next week. You CAN do this! The new academic year is upon us, and with it comes brand new interns like you! For me it was a little bit of excitement… and a lot

You found the one. The partner who completes you. You embark on a life-changing endeavor together: cohabitating, making family choices, fulfilling career goals, and supporting each other through it all. Then there’s that one looming question. Nope, it’s not whose family with whom you spend the holidays. It’s a question women in medicine have been asking themselves for generations. Should you change your surname? Recently, the Twitterverse exploded when attacks were launched i

Written by SheMD Editors Prema Vyas and Claire Duican What is a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) Model? Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) model is centered around continuity. Students are paired with the same clinician over a long period of time in order to help build continuous relationships between the student, clinician, and patients. In the traditional clerkship model, medical students may spend 4 weeks in each clerkship before transitioning to their next sit

There are many moments in emergency medicine where it is easy to make yourself smaller. It can happen in a crowded trauma bay, where multiple voices compete for attention and decisions need to be made quickly. It can happen on a consult call, where you are trying to advocate for a patient while navigating interruptions or differing opinions. It can happen in meetings, where you have something meaningful to contribute but hesitate, unsure of when or how to enter the conversat

Here at sheMD, we believe in the importance of practicing Evidence-Based Medicine. We believe the same principles apply to discussing Gender and Medical Education. Therefore, we are bringing you an entire Journal Club series! Our series will focus on foundational and new literature within the gender and medicine space. Today, we will be discussing the article entitled, IMPACT survey: IMpaired fecundity in Physicians and Association with Clinical Time. I was the lead author

In Time Is Finite, Dr. Jenna Taglienti writes about being a physician, a program director, a parent and then suddenly, a patient. A diagnosis that did not fit the narrative. A life that, from the outside, looked full and stable, interrupted in a way no one expects.

Why is this article important? We’ve spent years studying gender differences in evaluations, feedback, and operative experience. But in Emergency Medicine—where procedural competence is core to training—we’ve had surprisingly little data on something fundamental: Do men and women residents actually get the same procedural experience? Because in EM, opportunity = experience = competence = confidence.

There is a phrase I lived by in residency. It wasn't something I read in a book or heard at a wellness lecture. It's something I figured out the hard way, somewhere between a 12-hour shift and a Tuesday, I can't fully remember.