Needle sticks are a common injury among medical personnel - and they can be especially prevalent with young resident doctors. Although a needle stick can inject hazardous drugs intothe body, it is actually the injection of infectious fluids - especially blood - that is by far the greatest concern.
Average Med School Graduate Student Loan Debt Reaches $250,000
A student loan debt of a quarter of a million dollars. That’s the average debt incurred by today’s newly-minted doctors who graduate with student loan debt. A recent report from the Education Data Initiative found that the average student loan balance for graduating physicians is now
Disability Among Medical Students Up To 9 Times Higher Than Previously Believed
Recent research from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicates that there are far more people making it through medical school with disabilities than we imagined. Indeed, the number of students with disabilities of various sorts going through medical school may be as much as
Beating Burnout
Burnout is real – and it’s an increasingly common problem among doctors across the U.S. Physicians are being increasingly squeezed between tightening reimbursement rates, the demands of practice management, liability concerns, demanding schedules, regulatory burdens and the relentless onslaught of
Is Your Medical Specialty Among the Top Earners?
Want to know how your medical specialty is getting paid? The 2023 Medscape Physician Compensation Report is out. Here are some of the key findings: The five highest earning medical specialties are: Plastic Surgery: $619,000 Orthopedics: $573,000 Cardiology: $507,000 Urology:
Study: Long Work Hours Triple Women’s Risk Of Life Threatening Chronic Illnesses
Those of you in or recently out of residency will relate to this one: Long work hours over three decades or more significantly increase the incidence of severe, life threatening chronic diseases among women. That’s according to a recent study by Xiaoxi Yao, Ph.D., with the Center for the Science of
Beware of These Financial Scams
Doctors are nearly always highly intelligent. Medical school is no joke, and it weeds out a lot of people. But doctors tend to make incomes well above the average – and despite their substantial education and expertise in medicine, doctors are not normally financial, investing or tax experts. That
Nailing the Medical Job Interview
There’s nothing so good it doesn’t have to be sold. And there’s no doctor so good he doesn’t have to sell an employer or patient on himself once in a while. The medical job interview can be tough, but we are here to help you with some advice. Don’t Be Nervous The first thing to understand