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Stampede! The Herd Mentality of Recruiting Season
August 3rd, 2016by: Dr. Chesney Fowler
When is peak recruiting season for emergency medicine residents? It depends. Everyone knows about when it starts and roughly when it ends. The first residents to sign usually do so in the summer, and the last are usually picking up the rear sometime in January (on the East Coast, that is). But it’s that start of […]
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Becoming an Emergency Medicine Destination of Choice for Women
July 27th, 2016by: Dr. Patsy McNeil
I’ve been an attending physician in emergency medicine in or around our nation’s capital for the last 16 years. Throughout my career as an African American woman, whether in academia or in leadership meetings, I have often been the only one. I’ve been the only woman often and even more frequently the only African-American. It […]
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