Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If in crisis, call 988 or the physician/medical student support line (this is staffed by volunteer psychiatrists from across the country so is may not as immediate) 1-888-409-0141 The 50/50 of the Human Experience Life is a balance of pleasant and unpleasant emotions. Line that up for yourself. These are not mutually exclusive.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 18, 2023

Additionally, this past week alone, a large number of former medical students who rotated with me during my intern year graduated from the shorter duration residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, etc and are now getting to do what they set out to do.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

OCTOBER 23, 2021

If you've been following my blog since it's inception in 2013, then you already know how much of an inspiration Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee is to me. #OMED21 Smiles I have had quite a few full circle moments over the past few years, but the one I experienced today compelled me to write this post.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. They discussed the need to review blueprints in other specialties to ensure greater integration of older adult care and address ageist assumptions in assessment content, while also aligning with published competencies for medical students and residents.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 17, 2021

Not sure if it will help anyone, and I made sure to retract program names, so just posting on the blog for my memories. By the time most medical students get ready to apply for residency, they have already spent thousands of dollars just taking board exams alone, not to mention the other costs associated with being a medical student.

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Noreta Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In summary, I would recommend this book to all physicians, especially younger physicians, residents or medical students who may not know the history of the healthcare system in the US.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Overall, this procedure may seem quite complicated, but a large team of medical experts are involved in the care of each patient. From the ultrasound technologists, to the anesthesiologist, to the surgeons as well as the resident doctors and medical students, there will be a team-based approach to your care.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

So the illness script we developed as a first-year medical student will evolve over time. Perhaps most importantly, illness scripts are dynamic and evolve as we get more exposure to the condition through our own clinical encounters or by hearing or reading about others’ cases.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I had never rotated in it when I was a medical student, so it was kind of cool being behind the curtain. It's crazy how when I started this blog in 2013, she was a tiny little elementary aged kid and now she's only a couple of years away from graduating high school and heading to college. Time flies!

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. Drew: I’ve published a draft version of it on the blog. But I just don’t expect my medical students, residents and generalist colleagues to do that and to have that.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors. Despite increasing attention to physician wellness , the rates of burnout continue to rise—especially among frontline clinicians, medical students, and residents. Now we’re getting somewhere. But is it really moral injury?

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2024

December 17 th marked 11 years since this blog has been in existence, but for the first time ever since its creation, I managed to go the entire year without a single post! If you've been reading my blog for a while, then you know I basically completed a General Surgery based intern year. I had definitely been missing out!

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Efforts to recruit physicians and students to train in endocrinology have included working with the Latino Medical Student Association. The program has doubled to 20 schools and will be awarding 40 Excellence in Endocrinology awards to medical students.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As an update to that blog , we want to begin by highlighting again that according to Merritt Hawkins, the average wait time for a new patient appointment with a primary care doctor is 29 days, up 50% from 2014. . Many docs are moving out of medicine and fewer medical students and residents want to pursue primary care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Janet: And Katie has a great CAPC blog too that kind of summarizes a lot of additional evidence and references online if you have access to that too. Eric: And why Under Pressure.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. I was like maybe I’ll write a blog post about this later. I’m going to try to remember as much as I can, so when I wake up, can I write a … My thought was I’m going to write a cool blog post about this.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. A few Dignity Therapy- Harvey Max Chochinov links. SPONSOR: .

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. ” So that was the way of setting what the- Alex: Norm is.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. I just realized we haven’t had him on GeriPal. We need to remedy that issue, Eric.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. Not a lot of blogs out there. And that’s very human, to be awkward. Not a lot of Substacks.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Back then we were a blog and Ken’s post, which is titled, Survival from Severe Sepsis: The infection is cured, but all is not well, is still one of our most viewed posts on Jerry Powell. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I remember walking through San Francisco Airport with Bob, we just happened to be there at similar times, and saying, “Eric and I are thinking about starting a blog.” ” And one of the students raised his hand. ” Eric: What was it called again, Wachter’s World? Bob: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

If you really don’t know how to write, actually, sometimes quote Eric in my talks on this, because you years ago said something about in doing the initial GeriPal, sort of just blogging, you would do it. I don’t remember what you said after Kai was asleep and you would work on it. And that was how you learned to write by doing it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

One of the things I’m now involved in teaching medical students and the bottom line is that everybody who’s in medical school is smart enough to graduate medical school. And then I get to choose who I call on because one of the things is I was this medical student who was like a gunner.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. They blame the medical student. Tell her she is a difficult student and then preserve the career of the guy who’s the surgeon bringing in the money.

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