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Why we should get more sleep

Alexis Dobranowski — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:38:00 +0000

Thanks to the University of Toronto Post-Grad Medical Education team for Tweeting this article about something we all love (or should!): Sleep!

According to Dr. Steven Park at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a lack of shut-eye can be really harmful – to our grades, our decision-making abilities and more.

Read his whole blog post, complete with 5 tips Dr. Park says will help (along with studies to back him up), on the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Blog, “The Doctor’s Tablet”. And while he’s talking about med school in particular, same thing goes for all students in any health discipline!

So, how’s your sleep pattern? Are you managing 6-8 hours a night?

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Work, school, life, friends, family and (hopefully) sleep…

Alexis Dobranowski — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:24:00 +0000

Bear with us as this blog undergoes some changes! In the meantime, tell us: what information would be help make your Sunnybrook experience even better?

We’ve chatted with some of you, and you’ve said information about transit, work/life balance, and advice about establishing a career in your chosen field would be helpful.

We are calling on some of our well-known physicians, nurses and other allied health professionals to offer their advice – stay tuned!

So, tell us, what info could help you?

Let us know below!

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Internal Medicine Residency…A Day in the Life

Education Team — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:23:00 +0000

Not many people are aware of what goes into completing an internal medicine residency, let alone all the day to day education that occurs. Having just completed my internal medicine residency as Chief Medical Resident, I thought I would highlight a typical day at Sunnybrook for a trainee on internal medicine.

8am:

Time for Morning Report. Here, a staff physician teaches approximately 20 residents and med students about an interesting case that came in the previous night. It helps to be a morning person in this pressure-packed situation…you have to be able to answer questions on the spot in front of all your peers and staff!!!

9am:

Time to review newly admitted cases from the previous night with your staff and team. The entire history and reasons behind the patient’s illness are discussed…with lots of quizzing of med students and residents along the way (click here for an example from the TV show scrubs)

10am:

Time to start seeing patients! Each resident is the primary caregiver for 6-10 patients, who they take care of every day until they are well enough to be discharged

Noon:

Lunch rounds…focused on a different medical topic each day. It is always a mad dash to try and attend these rounds and if you’re lucky squeeze in lunch.

1-4pm:

Finish seeing your assigned patients…this is the best learning that we receive all day…it’s here that you learn you really must practice medicine in order to learn it properly (check out this interesting article on the topic of “practicing” medicine)

4pm:

Time to review all of your team’s patients with the staff. These rounds are usually accompanied by another informal teaching session

5pm-late:

One resident from each team is on-call each day. This resident will stay in the hospital until 8am the following day in order to take care of the patients already admitted to hospital, as well as admit new patients to their team from the emergency department. Sleep is a luxury on these nights, which happen once every 4 days

8am (the next day):

Time for morning report again (see picture below). Hopefully, the on-call resident won’t get picked on and will get home to sleep!!!

An action packed day of teaching to say the least!!! Note the combination of teaching rounds with staff and patient care…seeing patients is the most important thing that residents do, and provides the best opportunity to learn. Thanks to all of our patients for helping to educate the next generation of Internal Medicine Specialists!!!

Samuel Silver

Chief Medical Resident 2011/12

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