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Off-Service Intern Writes Pulitzer Prize Winning Provider Note While EM Resident Sees Thirty Patients
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Seasoned ICU Nurse Forces Interns to Hand Over Computer Password to Correctly Enter Orders
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Learn the Lyrics to “Rudolph the Brown-Nosed Intern”
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Intern Forgets to Write “Appreciate GI’s Recs” in Patient Note, GI Fellow Inconsolable
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Med Student Given Important Task: Find Out What’s on Today’s Menu
NASHVILLE, TN - Instructed by her team that the task she was being given was of the utmost importance, third-year Vanderbilt University medical student...
Survey Finds This Year’s Residents Not Down for Breakfast
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Fecal Transplant Donations Skyrocket Thanks to Terrified Day 1 Interns
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Naptime Now Required for Residents per GME Guidelines
WASHINGTON, DC - The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) just passed a new residency requirement that mandates residents and interns to take a 30-minute...