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How residents are beating burnout with help from the theatre

Residents want work-life balance, but finding time to preserve your own wellness while successfully caring for your patients requires self-awareness and boundaries, two things many residents struggle to establish amid pressures in training.

Resident Wellness
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Publish like a pro: 5 expert strategies for innovative research

Whether you’re training in an academic medical center, teaching first-year students or investigating novel topics as a fellow, publishing research can boost your CV and make you a more appealing candidate to employers. Follow these expert strategies to effectively write and publish research on innovations in graduate medical education (GME).

Research in Residency
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How a student network sparked a stronger med school curriculum

Students are exploring creative ways to share project ideas and collaborate with faculty to transform physician training. Here’s how one student leveraged his peer network to help pilot a new curriculum and spur future student innovation.

Improve GME
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New duty hours review spotlights resident outcomes

A recent review of more than two dozen studies examined how duty hour restrictions have impacted patient safety, resident wellness and resident education. Duty hour restrictions had an especially adverse effect on one resident outcome in particular.

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Physicians discuss medical errors

What helps physicians after committing a serious medical error? Here’s how experienced physicians have learned to cope with medical errors and to grow professionally despite challenging experiences in practice.

Residency Life
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Physicians rank residency work-life balance by specialty

How busy are you compared to other specialties? Here’s a peer-ranked list of the best—and worst—specialties for work-life balance in training.

Resident Wellness
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Making consults productive: Residents offer a solution

Working with consults to treat patients may require special teambuilding strategies. How can residents better collaborate with their peers in other specialties?

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In high-tech world, low-cost simulation can advance resident training

Simulation exercises can help strengthen a medical resident’s skill acquisition and competency assessment. Certain exercises can be costly to implement. An article in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education recommends cost-effective ways to simulate clinical events in training.

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Where residents are most satisfied: Report ranks states

Which states have highest satisfaction rates for medical residents? Maybe it’s something about the climate, gas prices or local coffee shops, but these states boast the highest rates of satisfied medical residents, according to new rankings.

Resident Wellness