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As July looms, how to prep for your next stage of physician residency

From intern to senior resident, every step in GME brings new challenges. These tips can help you meet them like a seasoned professional. 

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Residency Life
Thriving in Residency

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Retirement planning tips for resident physicians—what to do now

Residents can balance student-loan repayment and setting up future success by making these smart financial moves. 

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Medical Residency Personal Finance
Thriving in Residency
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What do medical students need to be ready for residency?

Medical knowledge alone is not sufficient. Learn about the other competencies that experts say you must have to thrive in residency.

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ChangeMedEd Initiative
Thriving in Residency
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What to do when you feel like an imposter in residency training

Nearly half of resident physicians experience impostor phenomenon. Here are some keys to navigate the feeling. First: Know you’re not alone.

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Residency Life
Thriving in Residency

Making the Rounds

Get the latest advice, interviews and discussions on the most important topics affecting the lives and careers of medical students and residents.

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Aiming to become chief resident? Here are 7 must-have attributes

Being a brilliant clinician isn’t enough to land the prestigious role of chief resident. Residency program directors reveal which factors carry the day.

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Residency Life
Thriving in Residency
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These courses create health equity champions in your residency program

Better health equity training is an imperative for better care—and to meet ACGME requirements. Learn about on-demand training options from the AMA.

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Improve GME
Thriving in Residency
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How this PGY-2 balances physician residency, advocacy training

Through the Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship, AMA member Whitney Sambhariya, MD, PhD, is honing skills to advance health equity.

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Health Equity
Thriving in Residency
Diverse group of people
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Give resident physicians the know-how to advance health equity

Just as residents absorb medical terminology, so too should they learn to name the systems that create health inequities. Find out how with the AMA.

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Improve GME
Thriving in Residency
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4 tips to help resident physicians become telehealth superusers

Residency programs are doing more patient visits over telehealth. An online faculty development course has tips for getting the most out of them.

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Digital
Thriving in Residency