Medicine Mondays


Ok, ok ok, it’s Medicine Mondays… but it’s also Cyber Monday! To be honest, the plan was to write a great post about Physician Burnout over the long weekend. I’d have plenty of time to research and write a great post after Thanksgiving right? Wrong. Stock Photo from: Pixabay To be honest, Physician Burnout is a very important topic to me, as is Physician Suicide and Med School Attrition. However, to write those posts require […]

#CyberMonday for #illumedati


My prior posts gave an introduction to the Match, how to approach interviews, and how to travel for interviews. 4th Year, ERAS and the NRMP Residency Interviews Traveling for Interviews   Stock Photo from: Pixabay So where are we in the match? It’s now mid-November, which I consider to be the mid-point for the Match process. So let’s do a quick evaluation of where you are. You should have a few interviews under your belt […]

Mid #Match2017 Evaluation #illumedati



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I haven’t talked about the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and how it has affected the practice of medicine. I don’t need to use the Electronic Medical Record as much as my other clinical colleagues. However, I have seen how it has affected my wife’s work. She was involved with the switch-over of her residency to Epic and was even an “Epic Superuser” (extended training).  Needless to say, she’s pretty facile with EMRs in general, especially Epic. […]

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and How To Fix It #illumedati


Happy Halloween Everyone! Please be safe out there. After you’ve had your fill of trick or treats, click here for something really scary. Stock Photo From: Pixabay And… just for laughs: Happy Halloween! #medtwitter #illumedati pic.twitter.com/yYs0XmzQUi — Senior Resident, MD (@ResidentSensei) November 1, 2016   -Sensei Questions, Comments and Suggestions are welcome. You don’t need to fill out your email address, just write your name or nickname.

Happy Halloween 2016! #illumedati



So I’ve actually written a good amount of Medicine Mondays posts now. I thought it was good idea to try to create a Medicine Mondays Roadmap of some good posts. I also tried to organize an order to read them in. So pour some coffee, sit back, relax and click on some of these links: Stock Photo From: Pixabay You’re a pre-med and want to know about medical school: The Track Falling Off the Track Past, Present and […]

Medicine Mondays Roadmap #illumedati


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Last time on Medicine Mondays, we talked about Residency Interviews and then also Traveling for Interviews on Whatever Wednesdays. I’m going to switch gears today and talk about how “Good Doctors are Bad Patients”. This is kind of pseudo follow-up to my prior post, Good Doctor, Bad Doctor, Bad for Doctor. So what do I mean that Good Doctors are Bad Patients? Well, what are some of the personality traits of a “good doctor”. Someone with a good […]

Good Doctors are Bad Patients #illumedati