Residency Rap
Can we talk ?

 What It'll Be

I envision an online forum where we can have a lively, entertaining, and hopefully informative discussion on a vast range of topics. At my residency program, we have nine residents (three per year), and I learn more from them on a daily basis than I do from the attendings. We discuss clinical issues like surgical cases-what went wrong or right-as well as personal issues, like our family lives.  All this networking that we do within my program helps us all to cope with the challenges of being a podiatric resident, while still maintaining a good family life. 

 An Untapped Resource

So we thought, why not expand that learning process to the entire country? We’re all in different programs, performing varying procedures, often functioning in significantly different ways. Yet I’ll bet my stipend that we have many of the same daily experiences: early morning hours and late nights, difficult attendings, families that demand our time, etc. It would be greatly beneficial to our educational experience and our ability to cope with our lives as medical residents to know how the folks in other parts of the country solve their daily dilemmas. Each of us, as well as our respective residency programs, will greatly benefit from our collective experience. We are a significant and until now, untapped resource for each other!

 About Me

Here’s a little biographical information on your moderator. I am currently a third year resident at the Botsford General Hospital PM&S-36 podiatric surgery program in Farmington Hills, Michigan. My class is the last year of the PPMR, PSR24 program. I graduated from the California school during its move out of San Francisco (a very trying time for the college, as many of you know). I have been married for seven years and have recently been blessed with the birth of my son 17 weeks ago, named Lazarus!! Like many of you, I was married before I entered medical school, and training to become a podiatric physician has greatly changed my life (for the good and the bad). I’ve often said I’m surprised my wife stayed with me this long. Extensive hours studying during medical school and now long hours at the hospital in residency training has forced me to take a second look at my time management skills in order to successfully balance my career with family life. More often than not I fail miserably.

 What About You ?

What’s your program like? Is it really the best in the country? I invite all podiatric residents, including our new first year colleagues to participate. I’m sure with the large number of participants available in the podiatric residency community we can have some fantastic discussion. Don’t be afraid to express your opinions, whether they agree with the mainstream or not. Your opinions are as valid as everyone else’s. Welcome!!

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