S6E15: Transitioning from Medical School to Residency

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S6E15: Transitioning from Medical School to Residency

Jun 05, 2023

The shift in roles and responsibilities from medical student to resident can be nerve-wracking. Add to the anxiety and stress if you are relocating away from a familiar support system. Prepping for their moves post-matching, in S6E15, Lina and Hạ talk with Leen about the challenges of transitioning from medical school to residency, relocating, and the importance of staying true to your identities while building a supportive community and finding like-minded people in a new environment.

Unit on the Brink: E4 - The Last Resort
By April, the governor’s stay-at-home directive seemed to be working. New COVID-19 positive cases appeared to be leveling off. But the new rules aimed at keeping everyone safe had also led to tens of thousands of Utahns losing their jobs. The MICU staff anxiously watched TV news stories about large groups of unmasked, undistanced protestors demanding the state re-open for business. Meanwhile, as one extremely sick MICU patient with COVID-19 became eligible for what was “the last resort” technology offered, staff wondered what would happen if the public stopped observing the very measures put in place to keep them safe, and whether some of those very protestors would soon be needing their care.
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