Be Better Than Good Enough
In my first post about mentorship, I alluded to one of my earliest mentor meetings in the residency. When I started residency, I expected mentoring to be structured and scheduled for me. However, I quickly learned mentoring is not passive. Much of the responsibility is on the mentee. Mentors can […]
For 2016, I made the goal to read fifty-two books in fifty-two weeks. I didn’t achieve it. Now, I’m determined to succeed in 2017. My plan is to review the books I read in groups of thirteen. Below is the first group and a description of my ratings. Ratings out […]
This year, I decided to undertake filing taxes without an accountant (or asking my brother or dad like years past). Every time someone mentioned taxes I cringed thinking about what a terrible process it would be. Having no idea how to actually submit/do my own taxes, I quickly repressed any […]
This past week I graded the post-graduation plans of forty second year DPT students. Over 90% had goals and action plans to find a mentor by three months after graduation. The truth is, only a small fraction of them will. As it becomes time to seek a mentor, suddenly many […]
It wasn’t an interview, but it felt similar to one. I could feel my eyes shifting back and forth, corner to corner as I searched for the answer. In front of me sat a scribbled piece of paper with 5 or 6 goals for my first month of residency. They […]
How to Stop Other People from Holding You Back: When you believe that you will accomplish something, there will be always be someone quick to tell you that you will fail. One of you will be right. Make certain that it’s you.
Most fathers build sand castles when they take their daughters to the beach, but not mine. For reasons I’m still unsure, he and I would dig holes deep enough to hit water. When we would begin digging, we would shove all the hot, dry sand out of the way. The […]
We all sat in the auditorium. Most of my friends were excited just to miss English and half of Algebra. Not me. I was excited for the presentation. It was one of the few times in school that we would go to an assembly and get to watch a public […]
Burnout Series 3 of 3 Our biggest weapon against burn-out is prevention. Instead of suffering through a burn-out or the flu, avoid it entirely. When flu season begins, we line up to get a vaccine, increase our vitamin C intake, wash our hands more often, and avoid close contact with […]
BURNOUT SERIES PART 2 of 3 As physical therapists, we know that treatment is patient and diagnosis dependent. We look not directly at the problem itself, but seek to find the source of that problem. Last week, we compared a burnout to the flu. Questions were posed to determine if […]