By Osman Sanyer, MD Throughout my career as a family doc, it has remained a constant challenge to train and recruit family medicine residents to practice in rural areas, and to retain family physicians in these rural practices. Work force demographic studies suggest that these challenges will continue to increase for years to come. … More A potential new model for training rural family physicians
By Becky Abbey I am now three weeks into what is likely the most difficult rotation of residency thus far. The rotation is called “newborn baby care 24/7”, also know as the “being a brand new mom rotation.” So far, this rotation has had the cutest patients, OK actually just one patient, of any … More The Most Challenging Rotation of Residency
By Katie Fortenberry, PhD I’m just coming out of two years of sleep deprivation. Due to some sleep apnea issues (hopefully finally resolved), my now two-year-old daughter slept like a newborn until this summer. Which means, like the mom of a newborn, I was up every three hours at night for the last two years. … More Living while Sleep Deprived
By Sarah Riley-Burnett, DO In late fall of 2014, after a long day of rounding on patients at the hospital and a half day of clinic, I changed into jeans and a sweatshirt and made my way over to a community garden nestled in the heart of Salt Lake City, Utah. I met a small … More Community Gardening for Health
By Zoë Cross, MD It is truly a privilege to live within shouting distance of the mountains here in Salt Lake City. It is also a privilege to be a resident physician. Entering a residency program means a young doctor has made it through undergraduate education and medical school, countless tests, sleepless nights, and probably too many … More Training on the trail: residency lessons learned in the back & beyond
By Brian Hill, MD I recently spent a month on my inpatient pediatrics rotation. As I had heard innumerable times, adult medicine and pediatric medicine are very different animals. So, as an intern having only one month of prior inpatient pediatrics exposure (as a third year medical student), new information, diagnoses, and experiences came at … More Kids These Days
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