OB/GYN

Every year as residency comes to an end, many decide between doing a fellowship or starting practice as an attending. It’s an individualized decision that hinges on professional goals and personal circumstances. The roles fellows and attendings serve are different in structure and purpose. If you’re approaching a similar decision, here are a few key read more…

Choosing a specialty in medical school isn’t easy. You’re required to make a career-long decision from a series of brief rotations each spanning a couple of weeks to months and then hope you made the right choice. Most of the time, this works out, and your career path becomes everything you wished for. But sometimes—maybe read more…

Fellowship is an exciting next step in your training after residency. Not everyone needs to do a fellowship (and many people don’t), but the advantage of further subspecialty training is the additional expertise that will set you apart from your colleagues. In this article, we’ll explain the different types of fellowships, how to apply to read more…

Starting residency is an exciting time! During this time, some specialties may require you to do a modified intern year before continuing to your “advanced” residency. This specifically applies to applicants going into anesthesiology, dermatology, ophthalmology, neurology, physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), radiation oncology, radiology including interventional radiology (IR), and in some cases, urology and read more…

If you’re a physician with an annual allowance to spend on continuing medical education (CME), you should start thinking about how you want to use any balance you have remaining as the end of the year approaches. An important component of working in healthcare is to make sure you are keeping up with new developments read more…