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[I just wanted to point out that this video went live at 4am 🤣]
I start most of my mornings at ~4am. I find that this is the best way for me to start the day to be productive and overall for my well-being. I think for a while I was in denial about being a morning person, but once I became an anesthesiologist, it became clear that my days were just *so much better* when I started them early.
My 4am morning routine looks like this:
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When I started residency, I fully intended on joining a private practice group. But my residency and fellowship @mghanesthesia ended up changing my trajectory. Here are some reasons I stayed in academia:
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I took my anesthesia critical care medicine board examination on October 9, 2021 – a significant delay from my graduation from my fellowship in June 2020 because of pandemic restrictions. It was a different experience studying for this exam because I was working as an attending at that point and this board exam doesn’t have as “straightforward” of resources to use [e.g. BASIC/ADVANCED/ITE = TrueLearn + review book]. Also, it feels weird to have to study for yet another exam when you’re finally DONE with training.
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During a talk I gave recently to an anesthesia department about social media for use by medical professionals, I used the example of typing into Google: “Are anesthesiologists…” and allowing the predictive text to fill in the rest. The FIRST response on Google is: “Are anesthesiologists doctors?” which I used as a demonstration that we [as anesthesiologists] need to do a better job with letting the public know our role in the surgical team.
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For the 2022 Match, the ERAS application included a “supplemental” portion that introduced something called preference signaling. 3 specialties participated in this pilot [though ENT started this starting with the 2021 Match cycle] and this year, this program is expanding to additional specialties [16 total]… including anesthesia.
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Although the gender gap in medical schools has recently closed, women physicians still face challenges. I’m frequently asked what the relevance of my work in @amwadoctors is… and well, here are a couple reasons we still have work to do on gender equity:
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I have dreamed of becoming a doctor since I was a young girl. But nothing prepared me for the realities of the profession [of note, I’m a first-generation college graduate and no one in my family practices medicine]. If you are pre-medical and plan on embarking on the journey to becoming a physician, I ask that you consider these 5 reasons NOT to become one:
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A little over a year ago, I posted this video [https://youtu.be/5uOjxyRwhSc] on my experience with burnout as a resident and early on as an attending. In that video, I shared these 6 tips:
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Match day was one of the happiest days of my life. It isn’t that way for everyone, so I think it’s important to respect that and support our colleagues when we can. But for those of you that have matched into a residency program (congratulations!) and now know where you’re going to be for the next few years, this video is for you.
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My journey to becoming an attending physician has not been straightforward. I’d argue that no one’s journey to adulthood really is. But that being said, with how much social media highlights all of the happy, bright things in life, it can be easy to forget that all of us stumble sometimes. All of us fail or receive rejections.
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