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Study: Students who view medicine as a calling more likely to enter primary care-related programs

As the U.S. faces a shortage of primary care physicians, researchers set out to determine if medical students’ professional identities shaped their specialty preferences. To do this, researchers had nearly 600 fourth-year allopathic and osteopathic medical students answer a self-administered mail survey.

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Avoid potential complications with visas

Many of the residents in the United States are international medical graduates, training here on a sponsored training or exchange visa, generally an H1-b or a J-1. The H1-b visa has a limit of five years before a change in status must occur (such as employment, and sponsorship for a U.S. Permanent Residency Card, colloquially known as a “green card”).

New for RPA subscriber-only: Preventing physicians from sharing information that could lead to privacy concerns

Password sharing is rampant among residents but it can put protected patient information at risk. Hospitals and medical clinics are unique given the amount of personal information stored in their databanks. Despite the many technological safeguards put into place to protect patient information from getting into the wrong hands, a mistake as trivial as password sharing could still be devastating.  Read more.

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Resident Well-Being: A Guide for Residency Programs

For many new physicians, residency can be a major source of stress and fatigue, which affects their ability to care for themselves and their patients. Recently, the ACGME added a Well-Being section to its Common Program Requirements. Although it is not a new problem, issues regarding physician mental health have been slow to address thanks to certain lingering stigmas.

Resident Well-Being is a tool for residency program directors, coordinators, and faculty to teach residents how to pay more attention to their self-care and understand the influence their wellness has on the care they give their patients. This resource will specifically address how to help residents with burnout, depression, stress, and achieving a healthy work-life balance. Training tools are included, as well as case studies and examples from various programs about the tools they have already implemented for resident wellness.

This book will help you:

• Assess your program for resident wellness
• Identify signs of burnout and depression in residents
• Create a safe working and social environment for residents to excel

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