by: Susan Pories, MD, FACSI became interested in working with medical students on reflective writing when I was a tutor in the Patient Doctor III course, for third year students transitioning from the...
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Creative Writing for Surgeons
By: Carol EH Scott-Conner, MD, PhD WHY WRITE? If you keep a journal, you are familiar with the process of putting words to an event. Writing down what happened allows you to place the event into a ...
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How to Become a Wildly Successful Researcher
by: Marie Crandall, MD, MPH, FACS So, I can’t honestly claim to be a wildly successful researcher, but I understand, in principle, the effort required. I have slogged away at an academic career f...
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Featuring 2013 ACS Surgical Forum Excellence in Research Award Recipient: Nicole Tapia, MD
General Surgery Resident Nicole Tapia, MD was honored a Surgical Forum Excellence in Research Award at the 2013 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress held in Washington, D.C. Her work entitle...
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The Power of a Stitch
Reflections from the Association of Women Surgeons' Booth @ the 3rd USA Science & Engineering Festival By: Shannon F. Rosati, MD As a surgical resident, I have spent countless hours arduously l...
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The Changing Face of Medicine
by Minerva A. Romero ArenasWe cannot all succeed if half of us are held back. – Malala YousafzaiElizabeth Blackwell, a teacher and immigrant to the U.S., turned to medicine after a friend confided ...
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Nobody Comes to Work to Do a Bad Job…
by Mary Brandt, MD“She’s really impossible… one of the grumpiest people I’ve ever met. We’ve had nurses come back from escorting patients to her almost in tears… if I worked with her, Iâ€...
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Compassion: Lessons from Roshi Joan Halifax
by Mary Brandt, MD It’s not often that a talk completely changes the way I think about something. I’ve been thinking and speaking about compassion fatigue for many years. I recently had the priv...
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Making time to take care of you.
By: Christina Cellini, MD, FACS, FASCRSIt’s easy for us to get caught up in the day-to-day caring of others – whether patients or family – that we forget to take care of ourselves! I recently ex...
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A bit of kindness
by Amalia Cochran, MDThe following is an excerpt from an email I recently received from a mentee: “I love, love, love surgery, but even as someone who has thrived in this environment, I now acknowle...