By Becky Vickerstaff
Staff Writer

Parenting in today’s world requires juggling many competing interests, and dads in the medical professions have their own unique challenges. First there is the reality of the educational investment; studying, rotation, and other complementary activities take up lots of time. After school, there are internships, residencies, fellowships, and of course, being on call. How does Dr. Dad get it all done?

One SDN member, who we’ll call “New Intern,” has just completed medical school and is beginning residency. He has two sons, now 4 and 1, and he and his wife have had to reach out to other medical students to help balance things. “We had no family in the area where I attended school. Occasionally we had some of my school friends baby sit so we could see a movie once or twice. But otherwise, it was just us – with my wife doing the majority of the child care.”

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