Residency

A Look Back on What It Took To Get Through Residency

By Rebekah Apple, MA In 2013, Jennifer Packing-Euben, MD, was in her first year of the Florida Hospital Family Residency Program, and feeling somewhat dazed by the experience. Fast forward to July, 2016. What words of wisdom does she offer? “Priorities,” says Packing-Euben. “It is all about getting priorities straight.” Not all residents have the...

What the Headlines Forgot

By:  Alison Case, MD, AMSA Education and Advocacy Fellow Within the last week, a number of news outlets reported the results of the Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) trial, carried out in more than one hundred general surgery training programs across the U.S.  Headlines such as, “Longer Surgical Resident Shifts Pose...