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I have just graduated from my residency this year recently board certified by ABIM (so now got promoted to paying the MOC mafia...). I am working now as a junior academic faculty since mid-September in another medium sized Academic center (some 80+ total cat and prelim residents)
My question is after the board passing and graduation, it is hard to motivate myself to learning as in the great amount of reading we all do in residency.
With that being said, I am so jealous of all the senior attendings and my former attendings who are so sharp with their management and could foresee so far more or less accurately the course of a patient's progress! Granted, most of them has at least a decade of experiences above my head but, I'll be honest, it is intimidating and inspiring.
During grand-round and M&M, the attendings ask such illuminating and incisive questions that my dumb brain was just blown away! I couldn't help but be inspired and well, once again, intimidated!!! Case in point, a blood gas was on presentation last week and I am still calculating on MedCalc but this >70-years-old attending just called out the gap, the delta gap and everything right then and there. TBH, rude really, since he did not give the residents a chance to go through it before he gave out the answer but it is still impressive to me!
Further, my senior 3rd year residents are so smart too even some interns and 2nd years too! I don't know about you guys, senior attendings, but, at times, I am intimidated by my senior residents. There were times that I was thinking "I would not have known that when I was in their shoes" or "Dang, that is a perfect answer if I ever was looking for one!" or "Uptodate couldn't have written a better explanation!". Multiple times my hands are twitching to check uptodate for confirmation! I chart-reviewed on all my patients pre-rounding too so it wasn't because the patients were new to me but these residents are good!
So, now I am back to reading books like Framework of Internal Medicine and etc that I used to do as a resident. But I want to know whether you, senior attendings here, ever been in my shoes or is it just me?! Second, what kind of resources do you guys use to keep up with new medical knowledge and solidify the old ones that you previously learnt? Really, how do you guys keep yourself sharp over the years and decades to come!
Sincerely,
Intimidated PGY4; still can't believe I passed my board and my chair allowed me to be an attending to someone!
My question is after the board passing and graduation, it is hard to motivate myself to learning as in the great amount of reading we all do in residency.
With that being said, I am so jealous of all the senior attendings and my former attendings who are so sharp with their management and could foresee so far more or less accurately the course of a patient's progress! Granted, most of them has at least a decade of experiences above my head but, I'll be honest, it is intimidating and inspiring.
During grand-round and M&M, the attendings ask such illuminating and incisive questions that my dumb brain was just blown away! I couldn't help but be inspired and well, once again, intimidated!!! Case in point, a blood gas was on presentation last week and I am still calculating on MedCalc but this >70-years-old attending just called out the gap, the delta gap and everything right then and there. TBH, rude really, since he did not give the residents a chance to go through it before he gave out the answer but it is still impressive to me!
Further, my senior 3rd year residents are so smart too even some interns and 2nd years too! I don't know about you guys, senior attendings, but, at times, I am intimidated by my senior residents. There were times that I was thinking "I would not have known that when I was in their shoes" or "Dang, that is a perfect answer if I ever was looking for one!" or "Uptodate couldn't have written a better explanation!". Multiple times my hands are twitching to check uptodate for confirmation! I chart-reviewed on all my patients pre-rounding too so it wasn't because the patients were new to me but these residents are good!
So, now I am back to reading books like Framework of Internal Medicine and etc that I used to do as a resident. But I want to know whether you, senior attendings here, ever been in my shoes or is it just me?! Second, what kind of resources do you guys use to keep up with new medical knowledge and solidify the old ones that you previously learnt? Really, how do you guys keep yourself sharp over the years and decades to come!
Sincerely,
Intimidated PGY4; still can't believe I passed my board and my chair allowed me to be an attending to someone!