No matter where you are in your residency training, a dismissal (or suspension, non-renewal, non-promotion, or even probation) threatens the significant investments of time and money you have put into your medical career. Often, residency and fellowship programs make mistakes in reaching these high-stakes decisions that can be remedied through ... Read more
Greg Care
Updated August 16, 2022 by Greg Care
Evidence-based medicine is the application of a rigorous scientific standard in the practice of a medical profession. Physicians and other healthcare providers rely upon its tools and recommendations regularly. Yet, might there have been a ... Read more
Samuel Williams, MD
Updated June 22, 2022 by Samuel Williams, MD
Popular culture promotes—and most people accept—the notion that physicians make a lot of money. When it comes to national average salaries, data supports that conclusion, as well. But not all of us are average: medical professionals ... Read more
Susan Doktor
Updated August 8, 2022 by Susan Doktor
Dr. Omar Mirza is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist based in New York City. He also co-creates the comic series Zindan: The Last Ansaars with his friend and nephrologist Dr. Khurram Mehtabdin (see their interview here). Now, ... Read more
Christy Duan
Updated August 8, 2022 by Christy Duan
Dr. Robin Kuriakose is a physician resident completing his surgical residency in Ophthalmology at Loma Linda University Health in Southern California. Prior to this, he attended a combined BS/MD program at Virginia Commonwealth University in ... Read more
Student Doctor Network
Updated August 2, 2022 by Student Doctor Network
Are you a resident physician? A fully licensed and board-certified physician? If so, then you are already aware that this long journey is not easy nor is it linear. However, that doesn’t mean that you ... Read more
Student Doctor Network
Updated October 18, 2023 by Student Doctor Network
DOs (osteopathic physicians) are the legal and professional equivalents of MDs (allopathic physicians). They practice in all areas of medicine and compete with MDs for residencies and in the job market. Learn more.
David Russo
Updated September 13, 2021 by David Russo
The medical field never stops evolving from new advances to new technology and new methods. Aside from this, it’s undeniable that the stories the profession brings, as well as the exciting industry news, make medical ... Read more
Lauren Groff
Updated June 22, 2022 by Lauren Groff
In the mid-twentieth century, millions of viewers—some quite fanatical—tuned into daytime TV soap operas like General Hospital and The Doctors, inviting (albeit highly fictionalized) doctors, nurses, and patients into their homes for an hour of ... Read more
Susan Doktor
Updated May 13, 2021 by Susan Doktor
Hand surgeons are specialists who complete a residency in either orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, or general surgery and then go on to additional competency training in hand and upper extremity surgery. Hand Surgery Training Orthopaedic surgery ... Read more
Nina Lightdale-Miric
Updated June 22, 2022 by Nina Lightdale-Miric
The first year of residency has never been easy. The jump one must make from medical student to doctor feels insurmountable in those early months of July. And the trend beyond that is not linear. ... Read more
Hillary Mullan
Updated June 22, 2022 by Hillary Mullan
Jia Wei Tan came from Malaysia dreaming of completing her residency in the U.S. and becoming a nephrologist. Luckily, she took the USMLE and interviewed for programs before COVID-19 shook the world, and she began ... Read more
Jia Wei Tan, PhD, MD and Anupam Garg, PhD
Updated June 22, 2022 by Jia Wei Tan, PhD, MD and Anupam Garg, PhD
Dr. Marcus Jennings is the chief family medicine resident at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health in Bogalusa, Louisiana. Dr. Jennings is a native of Memphis, Tennessee and he completed his undergraduate degree at the Xavier ... Read more
Brittany Ferri
Updated June 22, 2022 by Brittany Ferri
A recently settled whistleblower case brought against a major public hospital in New York City highlights the importance of adequate hospital supervision of medical residents who are enrolled in approved graduate medical education (“GME”) programs. ... Read more
Geoffrey Kaiser
Updated August 16, 2022 by Geoffrey Kaiser
Image courtesy of Lucasfilm. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, medical care looked a little different from what we see today. However, the vision of healthcare that George Lucas created in ... Read more
Laura Turner
Updated June 23, 2022 by Laura Turner
Dr. Richard Lane attended University of Maryland where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology with a concentration in oceanography and his Doctor of Medicine in 1982. He proceeded to earn his Master of ... Read more
Crissey Tait
Updated June 23, 2022 by Crissey Tait
Updated October 21, 2021. When most people think of the Student Doctor Network, they think of the SDN Forums, where pre-health and health professional students discuss all aspects of the admission and training processes to ... Read more
Student Doctor Network
Updated June 23, 2022 by Student Doctor Network
Conferences are to medicine as trade shows are to business. Love them or hate them, you’d be hard-pressed to make it through four years of medical school without attending at least one. If you’re productive ... Read more
Trevor C. Hunt
Updated June 23, 2022 by Trevor C. Hunt
Dr. John Mellinger offers his perspective on how balance success in medicine with a healthy life.
Crissey Tait
Updated June 23, 2022 by Crissey Tait