Small Decline Seen in Ob/Gyn Residency Applications in Abortion Ban States
In the first residency application cycle after Roe v. Wade was overturned, there was a small but significant decrease in the percentage of applicants to ob/gyn programs in states with abortion restrictions compared with previous years, Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) data showed. For the 2023 cycle, there were 2,463 ob/gyn applicants, 85.4% of whom […]
Texas Emergency Medicine Residency Program Won’t Shut Down
A Texas emergency medicine residency program was saved from being permanently closed this month after a groundswell of support from residents, physicians, and local politicians, according to reports. On October 12, Christus Spohn Shoreline Hospital administrators informed the residents and faculty of the Corpus Christi Emergency Medicine Residency Program that it would be discontinued in […]
Opinion | Roe Is Under Attack: How Can I Help?
Residency is hard when you’re planning to add a child to your family, even when everything goes right. When you find out at 28 weeks that your future child will never breathe without a ventilator, it gets harder. My wife had been having frequent ultrasounds for unrelated reasons. Nothing had been wrong so far. During […]
Physicians: Stop Dreading Call
Even though I completed residency almost 15 years ago, it is easy to remember the dread I experienced before taking hospital call. The sinking feeling in my stomach as the call date loomed near, the hypervigilance and terror every time my beeper went off in the middle of the night, the fear of imagined catastrophes […]