RESIDENCY

Well my name tag says "Dr." and I'm getting paid to spend my days at the hospital, but I'm far from possessing the skills and knowledge I need to care for patients independently. If clerkship is childhood (where you're easily impressed and eager to please -- with the promise of reference letters), then residency is the teenage years (the time spent figuring out how to get by on your own).

Here are thoughts on life as a resident:

• What I Keep In My White Coat
• What I Eat During 24-Hour Call
• 3 Things That Improve Call Shifts
• Tax Tips For Residents
• more to come...if you have any topic suggestions or questions about residency, please leave them in the comments!

I'll try to do "a day in the life" posts as I move through residency rotations:

PGY-1

• A Day in the Life: Radiology
• A Day in the Life: General Internal Medicine (and Back To General Internal Medicine)
• A Day in the Life: ENT
• A Day in the Life: Radiation Oncology
• A Day in the Life: Palliative Care
• A Day in the Life: Emergency Medicine
• A Day in the Life: General Surgery
• A Day in the Life: Pathology
• A Day in the Life: Family Medicine
• On Call

PGY-2

• Two Weeks Into Radiation Oncology
• Gastric Cancer Consensus Conference (a.k.a. My First Conference)
• A Day in the Life: Gyne Oncology
• Take-aways from Cancer Care Ethics Day
• A Day in the Life: Medical Oncology
• Get Yo Mentor On: Paying Forward Opportunities in Medicine
• Moonlighting: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

PGY-3

• CARO 2016, Banff
• ICPH 2016, Boston
• Anatomy, Radiology, & Contouring Bootcamp, London ON
• Research Isn't So Bad
• Halfway Through Residency & Office Tour
• Studying in Residency

PGY-4

• PGY-4 Goals
• CARO 2017, Toronto & ASTRO 2017, San Diego
• Studying in Residency: Oral Exams
• Residency Life Hacks
• 2017: A Look Back
• Prep Course 2017, Montreal

For anyone relocating to Alberta for residency, here's some hopefully helpful information on registering your vehicle/getting a driver's license and signing up for provincial health care.