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The Appeal of Ambulatory Medicine: How to Create More Primary Care Physicians

by Ryan Yarnall, MD

When I am asked about my future plans, my response is rightfully met with confusion. I am entering the workforce as an academic internal medicine physician devoting my practice entirely to the outpatient setting. Yet, two-thirds of my residency training has been managing patients within the walls of a hospital. That disconnect raises interesting questions about my career choice, and, naturally, makes me an...

January 31, 2020
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Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine

Grief, Unnoticed

by Carly Schmidt, MD

They said to stop compressions. We all agreed. This baby had no life when she was born, and we had fought for twenty whole minutes with our arsenal of medicine to give her life.

January 12, 2020
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Clinical, Featured, Pediatrics

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Clinical, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care

Treat Me If You Can: DNR versus Comfort Measures Only

Caffeine’s effect waned, stomachs rumbled, attention spans faded after rounding on nine acutely ill patients on university wards. It was nearing lunch. I was the senior resident, so I...

January 31, 2020
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Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine

The Appeal of Ambulatory Medicine: How to Create More Primary Care Physicians

When I am asked about my future plans, my response is rightfully met with confusion. I am entering the workforce as an academic internal medicine physician devoting my practice...

January 31, 2020
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Clinical, Featured, Pediatrics

Grief, Unnoticed

They said to stop compressions. We all agreed. This baby had no life when she was born, and we had fought for twenty whole minutes with our arsenal of...

January 12, 2020
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Editor-in-Chief, Featured

#Top12of2019: in-House 2019 Year in Review

Happy New Year from all of us at in-House! We are proud to announce the in-House Top 12 of 2019, our 12 most-read articles of 2019. Thank you for your readership over the...

December 29, 2019
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Clinical, Featured, GME, Housestaff Wellness, Opinions, Surgery

Why Being Kind Matters: Mistreatment of Residents Leads to Increased Rates of Burnout and Suicidal Ideation

Residency is a challenging time plagued by long hours, overwhelming clinical service loads, escalating documentation requirements, and inadequate resources for support. A recently published study in the New England...

December 22, 2019
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Featured, GME, Health Policy, Opinions

Patients, Providers and the Working Class: Lessons for Health Workers from the Closing of Hahnemann Hospital

I had just started my first clerkship of third year at a nearby hospital when the news broke. Hahnemann Hospital, the main teaching hospital of my medical school, was...

December 15, 2019
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GME, Opinions

Time Out: A Move Away From Traditional Physician Training Programs

The National Health Service (NHS) is the overarching employer of medical graduates in the United Kingdom. The first two years of any new doctor's training within the NHS is...

December 7, 2019
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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...

November 16, 2019
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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...

November 11, 2019
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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...

November 3, 2019
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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...

November 3, 2019
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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...

October 14, 2019
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