Medscape June 19, 2024
Your day begins before sunrise when you arrive at your designated floor and are greeted with a flurry of activity — from nurses bustling around to patients needing assistance. Monitors beep urgently as you dive into rounds, discuss patient cases, review lab results, and create treatment plans — in a never-ending stream of tasks. You push past exhaustion and carry on late into the night, tending to emergencies, connecting with patients, completing paperwork, and preparing to do it all again tomorrow. Such is the life of a resident.
No amount of training can prepare you for the residency learning curve, according to Ashley McKenzie, MD, a rising PGY-2 specializing in internal medicine at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. While you...
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