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Creation of the Historic “Resident and Fellow Bill of Rights” by The Collective for Resident Rights

by Nichole Roxas, MD

On October 16, 2019, our collective of health care workers at Yale University disrupted the meeting of the Graduate Medical Education Committee. Heads turned and followed us to the front of the lecture hall, where we unfurled our banner declaring “Doctors are Humans Too.”

November 16, 2019

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Featured, GME, Housestaff Wellness

It Takes An Air Force

by Captain Tyler Bates, DO

I elected to pause my training after completion of a transitional year internship to enter active duty service as a United States Air Force flight surgeon. While it is a less-than-traditional pathway, it allowed me to serve a greater mission.

November 11, 2019

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Featured, GME, Intern Year

Featured, GME, Housestaff Wellness

Creation of the Historic “Resident and Fellow Bill of Rights” by The Collective for Resident Rights

On October 16, 2019, our collective of health care workers at Yale University disrupted the meeting of the Graduate Medical Education Committee. Heads turned and followed us to the...

Featured, GME, Intern Year

It Takes An Air Force

I elected to pause my training after completion of a transitional year internship to enter active duty service as a United States Air Force flight surgeon. While it is...

Clinical, Evidence-Based Medicine, Psychiatry

Announcing the New Resident-Run Twitter @PsychResChat

@PsychResChat is the newest sub-community on Twitter, short for Psychiatry Resident Chat, the brainchild of Dr. Tolu Odebunmi, MD, MPH who is a psychiatry resident at the University of...

Clinical, Featured, GME, Opinions, Surgery

The Change: A Perspective on Women Surgeons from a Resident Physician

It wasn’t caterpillars turning into beautiful butterflies, that’s for sure. “The Change” was when a bright-eyed, optimistic female junior resident turned into an angry, and sometimes mean, senior resident...

Featured, GME, Housestaff Wellness

When Negotiations Fail: An Exclusive Interview with UWHA Lead Negotiator Dr. Kisha Clune

We are fighting for UW to come up to the national standard in their treatment of residents; we’re not asking for the impossible. Residents deserve to work in humane...

Featured, GME, Housestaff Wellness, Intern Year

Why We Walked Out: A Call for Courage and Action from the University of Washington Housestaff Association

On September 25, we participated in a 15-minute unity break (effectively a walk-out) with over 450 residents and fellows at the University of Washington in protest of UW’s dismal...

Clinical, Intern Year, Pediatrics

Night Call

My senior and I had been on night float together for a few weeks. That night, the dimmed lights of the hospital corridors spilled into the workroom which was...

Clinical, Family Medicine, Featured, Intern Year, OB/GYN

Foolish Feelings

It was 2 a.m. and I was downward-dog in the call room. Earlier during this maternal/child health rotation night shift, I had labored with three other moms in so...

GME, Housestaff Wellness, Opinions

A Cry for Help: Burning Out as a Resident Physician

During residency, do you ever stop to think why you wanted to become a doctor? What were your reasons? I wish I could remember mine. I could have pursued...

Physician Author

The Epidemic We Don’t Talk About: Response to the University of Washington Resident Physician Strike

On September 25, the resident physicians and fellows at the University of Washington (UW) participated in a “strike.” It lasted only 15 minutes, because above all else, they are...

Featured, GME, Housestaff Wellness, Opinions

In Solidarity: Response to the University of Washington Resident Physician Strike

Last week, the resident physicians and fellows of the University of Washington collectively decided to walk off the job for a 15-minute "unity break" in protest of unacceptable working...

Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Internal Medicine, Poetry

“PGY3”: How I Coped in the Medical ICU by Making Music

Listen to the track "PGY3" by Dr. Roy Souaid and his band "John Lebanon." The song started in New Orleans during the American College of Physicians National Conference in May...