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Punctuality Permits Presence

by Grayson Ashby, MD

It’s only 7:15 a.m.? I can finish folding my clothes before I have to leave for clinic, I thought to myself. Though the day was young, I had already been quite productive -- I started the laundry, made myself breakfast, picked up around my room, and even found time to journal briefly about the day before. Surely I could check one more thing off...

November 29, 2022

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Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Intern Year, Ophthalmology

Back to the Wards from Maternity Leave as an IMG

by Aline Gottlieb, MD, PhD

A few months have passed since I wrote my last column article, so now it’s time to get back into it. What has happened in the meantime? Well, I had baby #2, which meant I was lucky enough to take seven weeks of maternity leave from residency.

November 26, 2022

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Clinical, Columns, Featured, Intern Year, Internal Medicine, Surviving IM/G

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Punctuality Permits Presence

It’s only 7:15 a.m.? I can finish folding my clothes before I have to leave for clinic, I thought to myself. Though the day was young, I had already...

Clinical, Columns, Featured, Intern Year, Internal Medicine, Surviving IM/G

Back to the Wards from Maternity Leave as an IMG

A few months have passed since I wrote my last column article, so now it’s time to get back into it. What has happened in the meantime? Well, I...

Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Pediatrics

The Casualties of Performative Allyship

When was it that the newest woke thing to do was to ask for pronouns? In the queer communities in which I have been a member, it has been...

Clinical, Columns, Featured, Intern Year, Internal Medicine, Surviving IM/G

Surviving the First Month as an IMG Resident

Let’s start with a very brief introduction: Hello! My name is Aline, and I am an international medical graduate (IMG) from Germany. I used to work in Germany in...

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

The Life of a Medical Student: A Photo Essay

During my medical school journey at the University of Maryland, I created this photography series as an introspective representation of my experiences and to portray some of the unseen...

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

We Had a Choice

My husband and I were pregnant with a child / Then we found out something wild. / I am a carrier of SMA / And this affects me in...

White Coat, Black Book

At the start of medical school, many students participate in the “White Coat Ceremony.” Before peers, faculty, and family, they recite a modern version of the Hippocratic Oath (or...

Clinical, Featured, GME, Surgery

Robotic Surgery Training in Residency: Good or Bad?

The rapid introduction of revolutionary technologies like minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgeries will exponentially increase complexity in medicine, law, education and ethics. Roboethics deals with the code of conduct that...

Art & Poetry in Medicine

Dancing in the Rain

why do we live? do we struggle in vain / for the dream of a world, of a life without pain? / we suffer in spades, without cause, without...

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

Levity

At the turn of every corner / I will be found out / You will see / The fraud in me

Art & Poetry in Medicine

The Newborn Perspective

Don’t you forget the first day of life, / You had turned upside down / And a tight slap upon your backside / Even to get you to breathe!

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#Top10of2021: in-House 2021 Year in Review

Happy New Year from all of us at in-House! We are proud to announce the in-House Top 10 of 2021, our 10 most-read and shared articles of 2021. Thank you for your readership...