A Weekly Newsletter from the Program Director
2026
- Valentine's Day and Every Other Day
- On Language, Hope, and Responsibility
- Training, Safety and the Shape of Change
- The Honest Next Step
- Thinking Inside the Box
- The Tiger, The Reindeer, and The Turtle
- 2025
- Looking Ahead to 2026
- The Shortest Day of the Year Adjacent to the Longest Night
- Reimagining Professionalism
- Situational Doubt, Global Confidence
- Why Good Systems Grow: Applying Gall’s Law to Residency Design
- The Quiet Warming of Modern Medicine
- Life is a Series of Handoffs
- Classification, Separation, and Reconnection
- Rigor Builds Competence while Vigor Sustains Meaning
- Reflections on IMG Week through the Lens of a Novel
- Teamwork and Hierarchy
- Peers in Progress
- From Margins to Metadata
- Leadership is not a Thing - It's an Experience You Create for Others
- The Underserved, the Undeniable, and the Difference We Make
- The Unmeasured Value of Residents
- The Keystone Habit
- The Places We Belong
- Harnessing Artificial Intelligence Wisely
- Competency Based Medical Education - Challenges and Opportunities
- Service Without Profit: The Thread That Connects Us
- Dr. Wang's Legacy
- How to Survive the Bureaucracy of Residency Training
- Narrative Medicine
- Embracing Change
- Quadrants, Checklists, and the Art of Doing
- Medicine, Transitions, and the Weight We Carry
- Information Networks: Discovering Truth, Wielding Power and Establishing Order
- May You Stay Forever Young
- How Our Work Shapes Our Reality
- The Difference Between Documentation and Communication
- Resetting How We Work
- Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane
- On the 10th Anniversary of the Seldin Symposium
- Placebos and Nocebos
- Money May Be the Root of All Evil but it Does Matter
- Balancing Instinct and Reason: The Art of Decision-Making in Medicine
- Reflections on the Recruiting Season
- Destructive Consent and Constructive Dissent
- Optimal Training and the ACGME Survey
- How to Thrive in Uncertain Times
- From Remote Work to a Remote Life - Let's Get Social Again
- Patient Safety and Resident Safety are Complementary Concepts
- 2024
- The Year That Was
- Celebrating the Winter Solstice
- Belonging and Organizational Justice
- Endings Matter
- Time Variable Training
- Time Variable Training
- Thriving in Uncertain Times
- Revenge of the Tipping Point
- Connecting the Dots
- Women Defying the Odds
- Resilience, Stress and Allostasis
- Virchow and Sociomedical Causation
- Fellowship Interviews and Post-Interview Communication
- The Sociology of Diagnosis
- The Emotional Journey of Care
- Down the Rabbit Hole
- The Communication Conundrum
- Five Eras and Five Types of Patient Care
- Seronegative Rheumatology
- The Unbearable Awkwardness of Learning
- Listening Up Facilitates Speaking Up
- We Will Mess Up
- It Changes You and You will Change It
- The Seamless Transition
- Farewell Class of 2024
- We are all Guilty of "Clinicism"
- Farewell Friends
- The Evaluation System is Prone to Complex Failure
- Complex Failure
- The Transition for R2
- What Do You Care About?
- All That We Do Not Know
- Failing Well
- The Four Freedoms
- Messaging Wisely
- The Social Cost of Automation
- Yes, Medicine is Still a Calling
- Managing Distraction
- Looking Back at the Interview Season
- The Reluctant Bureaucrat
- 2023
- A Wish List for 2024
- Grateful for You
- Diagnostic Dilemmas
- Character, Comfort, Critics, Cheerleaders and Coaches
- The Case for Lifelong Learning
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Programmed Forgetting
- The Courage to Change
- Recruit with your Rizz
- Feedback vs Advice
- Post-Interview Communication: Thank You's and Ranking Love Letters
- Timed Tests and Timeless Learning
- Mental Models
- The Nature of Work
- The Flux Mindset
- The Status Quo
- The Lived Experience
- Loosening Up
- Let it RAIN
- Patient Care and Education Balance
- The Care of the Patient
- Ready, Set, Go
- Goodbyes are Complicated
- Farewell Chief Residents
- Greetings from Pakistan
- Social Capital
- Spotlight, Starlight, and Daylight
- Work-Life Imbalance
- Emergent Change
- Emergent Change
- Preparing for Transition
- Redesigning Residency Training
- The Week that it Was
- Problems and Solutions
- Effective Leadership
- Feeling Scabulous
- It's Survey Time
- The Platinum Rule
- News You Can Use
- Professional Identity Formation
- Happy New Year
- 2022
- Happy Winter Holidays
- Self-Reflection
- Interpersonal and Communications Skills
- Thanks For All That You Do
- A Season for Restoration
- Fear Setting vs Goal Setting
- The Power of Giving Up Hope
- 156 weeks
- International Medical Graduate Recognition Week
- The Last 10 years
- Thriving at Work - Time vs Energy
- "Quiet Quitting"
- Internal vs Instrumental Motivation
- After the Flood: Strategic Rebuilding
- Work Teams and Psychological Safety
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Program Goals for the Year
- The Method That Works for You
- Problems and Opportunities
- Teamwork Depends on Cohesion and Communication
- Best Doctor Possible
- Last Update of the Academic Year
- Nudge, Sludge and Drudge
- Ending Well
- Summer is Here
- 2022 ACGME Survey Results
- Bittersweet
- Generation C
- Spring Cleaning
- Unpacking Learning Theory
- The Match
- Transience and Permanence
- It's Tough Being Human when Humanity is Hurting
- News You Can Use
- Disappointment vs Regret
- Upheaval, Transition and Renewal
- Care for the Underserved is Deserved
- Losing Control, Gaining Trust
- 2021
- Here We Go Again
- Autonaomy vs. Control
- Plan A vs. Plan B
- Basal Bolus Insulin - The Physiologic Residency
- Reflections and Ponderings
- Managing Cognitive Overload