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Top questions to ask during your residency program interviews

Key questions med students should ask program directors and residents when interviewing. Topics include performance and evaluations, research and teaching opportunities, and employee benefits.

Transition to Residency
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To sleep or not to sleep: How residents make decisions post-call

Residents use “trade-off” approaches to determine how to recover after overnight shifts. A study looked at how residents use post-call off-duty time and the reasoning underpinning their activities.

Resident Wellness
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Top 5 topics for the medical community in 2015

The top five topics for physicians in 2015 dealt with burnout, specialty choice, putting patients first, electronic health records, and work-life balance. Read highlights on each topic.

Physician Health
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5 medical publishing pitfalls residents often overlook

If you’re a medical resident hoping to get published, take time to learn about the process. Susan Bates, MD, who’s been published over 250 times, offers five publishing pitfalls to avoid when writing or submitting research to journals.

Research in Residency
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Medical specialty choice under the microscope in 2015

From choosing a specialty as a med student to applying to sub-specialty fellowships as a resident to how physicians ranked them, many aspects of medical specialties were top of mind in 2015.

Specialty Profiles
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Why embracing failure may spark your next research breakthrough

Dr. Roberta Ness spoke at TEDMED 2015 on how to create scientific innovation. She talked about how embracing failure can be key to sparking a research breakthrough.

Research in Residency
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Top 10 stories from 2015 every resident should read

Look back at some of the top resident stories and headlines of 2015. Topics cover ranking specialties by work-life balance, conquering burnout and getting published.

Resident Wellness
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Wikipedia meets medical research? Rise of the online journal club

Wikipedia-style journal clubs are building collaborative channels for physicians to stay current on the latest medical research in their fields. Look for these five key benefits if you’re planning to join an online journal club.

Research in Residency
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Report points toward path for alternative GME funding

As physicians continue efforts to ensure a sufficient number of medical trainees are able to enter the physician workforce to stave off a predicted physician shortage, a new report takes a look at alternative funding sources for residency programs and offers steps that could be taken to expand existing graduate medical education (GME) programs and create new programs.

GME Funding