Hi, my name is Dr. Mariam and I am a first year resident in the Chicagoland area. I received my training at Ohio University and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and though the Chicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, I chose to move to the beautiful city of Chicago. I have received extensive Social and Emotional Intelligence Training, beginning my journey of formal Personal Development in 2010. As a Life Coach and Physician, I find that I am constantly in the throws of balancing serving others with self-care. As a new physician, I find that I am faced with challenges I have never faced before. Many are technical while others are nuanced with social and emotional attributes.
How to best connect with my patients while completing documenting and charting? How to navigate the power hierarchy on rounds? How to communicate effectively with nursing staff? How to admit my limitations but to also confidently express my aptitude? How to effectively present a concise but complete patient case? How to communicate with specialists we consult? How to navigate a new EMR?
There are many aspects of transitioning as a new doctor that can be foreign to medical students. With this blog, I’d like to help shed some light on what a resident physician faces during this transition period and to give some feedback to medical students as to what residents are looking for from students on clerkships.
I want this series to help YOU, so if you have any suggestions or feedback about topics you’d like to hear about, please email me at mariam@medspired.org.
I’ll be sharing my stories of what I find to be meaningful as a resident and hope you’ll accompany me on this journey.
Warmly,
Dr. Mariam
