Burnout is a serious problem in the medical profession, starting as early as the second year of medical school, but …

For healthcare professionals across all levels, work is more than a career—it’s a calling. But even turning your passions into your life’s work can take a toll on your physical, mental, and emotional well-being—and it could have detrimental impacts on your life, as well as the patients you serve. Ultimately, it can lead to burnout. A study of 7,000 physicians found that 41% of them had at least one symptom …

Clinical rotations can be an exciting time for medical students, but they can also be among the most stressful experiences in your education. Clinicals are a sign that you’re in the home stretch of your medical studies, and they provide you with hands-on experience in a real healthcare setting. You’re shadowing doctors, learning the ins and outs of the hospital, and even interacting with patients. But this sudden realness can be …

The interval between fourth-year residency applications and the first day of orientation the following July is a well-documented nemesis for most medical students. The demands of preparing applications, the time investment in the interview process, and the typical period of decompression and leisure following Match Day result in an extended period of disuse of—and concomitant massive decline in—the medical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills they built up with so much …

So you’ve taken and passed your Step 1 boards. Now what? Not only do you get to start studying for …