June 21st, 202000ACGMEmojis: the modified visual analog scale☠💩🗑👊🏻⭐️🍪💰💣🏆
In recent years, medical education has undergone a major overhaul in philosophy. There has been a steady shift away from the traditionally competitive culture of medical education to a more nurturing...
June 9th, 202000It was a gruesome scene in the medical resident workroom at Boston Health Alliance today. Amidst the grueling work hours, exploding COVID census, and endless emails, the inpatient medicine team took a devastating hit when several residents suffered nervous breakdowns.
The culprit? Incessant demands for health care workers to maintain...
May 2nd, 202001ATLANTA, GA—While medical students everywhere rejoice over the news that Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) is moving to a Pass/Fail grading system, residency program directors are devastated. Increasingly reliant on the Step 1 numerical score to “weed out” prospective candidates, program...
April 13th, 202001HYGIENE, CO—According to a recent study, doctors rarely, if ever, launder their white lab coats, a nauseating fact given that these coats carry and potentially spread dangerous pathogens. Medical residents, in particular, took issue with this report in a statement released to the press last night: “The study’s...
CHICAGO, IL – The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced that interns will no longer see patients not only to preserve personal protective equipment (PPE) but also so they can be redeployed to check on healthcare workers’ parents.
“It’s no secret that PPE is running low at hospitals...
WASHINGTON, DC—If you thought the Coronavirus pandemic was bad right now, just wait until July 1st, the date most new medical school graduates begin their hospital internships. Early models indicate there will be a rather devastating impact: Covid-19’s mortality rate, currently residing somewhere between 1-1.5% will...
When ICU resident Dr. Donna Mursa was called to evaluate a patient with suspected COVID-19, she wasn’t scared at all. She was thrilled. She knew what possibly being infected with coronavirus might mean for her: a much-needed vacation.
“I understood what this meant immediately,” she says, noting that she had worked close...
SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY—Amidst a barrage of serious allegations from hospital staff that, during a recent overnight on-call shift, she neglected a nurse’s request to check on a patient who was in distress and ultimately passed, Dr. Sarah Bennett continued to insist that she did indeed examine and properly manage the patient in...
Tampa, FL – For hospital CEO John Stevens, 2018 was a great year. Profits reached an all time high, and his board members had received record breaking compensation. In an effort to show his appreciation, Mr. Stevens announced that he would be handing out bonuses to all four hundred Residents at his hospital.
The announcement was...
Intern Connor was given the distinguished length of stay award by prestigious academic hospital. During his acceptance speech he stated he was not surprised as this has always been “his thing.” Driven by fear of having a procedure canceled he has the policy of keeping everyone NPO.
When looking at a hungry patient with no...
