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By Steven Clark It was 1980, a very different time for women in medicine, when Dr. Judith Berger, a freshly minted medical school graduate waddled into a Brooklyn hospital to begin her internship. She was seven months pregnant. “The first thing my second year resident said was, ‘Why am I so lucky that I got …
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By Steve Clark As Dr. Jacqueline Witter explained in her paper on mentoring nurses published in the Journal of Business and Economics, “Mentoring is a two-way circular dance that provides opportunities for experience, giving and receiving each other’s gifts without limitations and fear. Mentors guide, support, advise and apply relevant examples from their experiences to …
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The numbers tell it all. While 94 percent of American medical school graduates matched this year into hospital residency programs, that number plummeted to just 57 percent among international medical graduates (IMGs) – with Americans who attended medical school in, say, the Caribbean, Europe or Mexico getting in at a far higher rate than those …
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By Steven Clark When the residency program director points to a chair and asks you to sit in it during your interview, it’s probably not a good idea to pick the chair up and move it next to her. Or to look around the office and give your opinion about the posters on her wall. …