I recently attended the 2009 IDSA Fellows Meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina. It is a meeting designed for fellows interested in clinical infectious diseases. It provided a wonderful opportunity to interact with leaders in the field. Over the course of two and a half days, we were introduced to the nuts & bolts as […]
After ID Fellowship, What Next?
Second year of infectious disease fellowship was supposed to be great. It being the last year of my medical training, I was going to relax, take it slow, complete and publish my research, find a job, and just chill. My, have I been mistaken. Second year is certainly easier than first year in terms of […]
IOM Calls for Further Resident Work-hours Restrictions
Anyone who has read my blog has read many rants and whines about residency and fellowship training. This month, the Institute of Medicine released a report on Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision and Safety basically stating that more revisions to medical resident’s workloads are needed. Apparently, the last revisions in 2003 which did drastically […]
NYT: Medical Student Burnout
This past week, I attended my first ever Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) conference. It was a joint event with the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) ICAAC, a feat that has not been done in recent years. To say I was overwhelmed with the educational options and my senses numbed by the extravagant pharma […]
Sleep Deprivation in Medical Education
Going to Seattle for the SHEA/CDC Training Course proved to be very tiring. I flew JetBlue and had no flight delays or mishaps with the exception of a $7 blanket offer and lack of peanut snacks as someone on the plane had a severe nut allergy. I flew on late night flights to and fro, spent […]
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