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Managing Burnout: Advice for New Medical Trainees

July 31, 2015

The white coats these days are at their starchiest, the haircuts are fresh and even the Tylenol orders are being triple-checked — it’s July again at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. That is to say, the academic medicine new year has come and gone, and a flock of some 26,000 wide-eyed but eager new physicians have […]

Benjamin Oldfield ⋅ Perspectives in Research American Psychiatric Association, Anesthesiology, Burnout, Family Medicine, internal medicine, Medical Trainees, Pathology, Patient Health Questionnaire-2, pediatrics, Professional Exhaustion, Radiology, Self-Care, Surgery ⋅

Advice from a Senior Resident to a New Intern

July 14, 2015

This month, I became a senior resident in internal medicine. With that title comes the opportunity to help train new interns at our hospital. And when I met the talented group of interns just before their start last month, I couldn’t help but think back to my first day of residency. Two years earlier — […]