Wischnitzer's Residency Manual
Selecting, Securing, Surviving, Succeeding

A career guide for medical students on entering residency.

Saul Wischnitzer (Author), Edith Wischnitzer (Author)

9780521675161, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 June 2006

394 pages, 10 tables
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.68 kg

Residency is a defining period in a physician's life because it is the decisive stage for personal growth, intellectual challenge and emotional stress. It is a major transitional period transforming a medical student into a practice-ready physician. This role-change for the physician-in-training usually takes place in a new setting and necessitates coping with conflicting demands, heavy responsibility and long work hours. Adding to the residents' burden is the ongoing need to manage their financial, social and work demands. This manual was designed to help medical students on this final critical segment of their journey to become practicing physicians. It will enhance the students' awareness of the potential obstacles along the way and provide them with guidance on how to avoid them. The book includes: selecting an appropriate specialty, maximizing the chances of being selected, surviving residency and beginning practice.

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Selecting a Specialty: 1. Considering your options
2. Selecting your specialty
3. Major specialties
4. Medical subspecialties
5. Surgical subspecialties
6. Other subspecialties
Part II. Securing a Residency: 7. Laying the groundwork
8. Getting started
9. Residency program selection
10. Applying for a residency
11. The residency interview
12. Facing the match
Part III. Surviving a Residency: 13. Becoming oriented
14. Meeting responsibilities
15. Protecting your assets
16. Professional challenges facing residents
17. Personal challenges facing residents
18. Surviving yet thriving
Part IV. Succeeding in Practice: 19. Securing a position
20. Practice options
21. Marketing and operating a successful practice
22. Monitoring your professional and personal finances
23. Responding to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
24. The Art of medicine
Appendix I. Major professional organizations
Appendix II. Sample resumés
Appendix III. Sample personal statements
Glossary
Abbreviations
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]