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The gifts have been opened, the decorations have come down (hopefully), and a new year has been ushered in with all the usual pomp and circumstance. Now it is time to get back to our preholiday lives. As is typically the case, I reflect on what went right or wrong last year and make promises to myself to make this year the "best year ever!" Though I am not one to go overboard making New Year’s resolutions (because I do such a poor job at keeping them), I must admit I feel a tiny twinge of excitement at the prospect of new beginnings. While a new year doesn’t necessarily mean we will make all the changes we hope for, there is something uniquely stimulating and intriguing about the possibilities it holds.
One of my loftiest goals (since my days of medical school) is to be an awe-inspiring physician with an unprecedented level of knowledge that could help me miraculously catapult my patients into the highest level of health imaginable. But since I wake up each day without a cape and a mask, I know I have to settle for being the best physician I can realistically be.
Naturally, keeping up with the standards for high-quality care in hospital medicine is crucial, but can I really keep up to date with every important journal article that is published? Probably not – not unless I want to sleep 2 or 3 hours per night, which would turn me into a grumpy, groggy doctor, which would benefit no one. Many hospitalists, including myself, have families, and a significant draw to hospital medicine in the first place was the amount of time we would have off to spend with them and just enjoy life.
Since time is a precious commodity, why not fill our down time with useful information in the way of educational DVDs, CDs, and downloads? Yes, that’s it. My resolution is to spend much of my 14+ hours of commuting time each month gleaning useful information from a variety of sources. Some useful ones are listed below:
• Update in Hospital Medicine, a Harvard University CME.
The gifts have been opened, the decorations have come down (hopefully), and a new year has been ushered in with all the usual pomp and circumstance. Now it is time to get back to our preholiday lives. As is typically the case, I reflect on what went right or wrong last year and make promises to myself to make this year the "best year ever!" Though I am not one to go overboard making New Year’s resolutions (because I do such a poor job at keeping them), I must admit I feel a tiny twinge of excitement at the prospect of new beginnings. While a new year doesn’t necessarily mean we will make all the changes we hope for, there is something uniquely stimulating and intriguing about the possibilities it holds.
One of my loftiest goals (since my days of medical school) is to be an awe-inspiring physician with an unprecedented level of knowledge that could help me miraculously catapult my patients into the highest level of health imaginable. But since I wake up each day without a cape and a mask, I know I have to settle for being the best physician I can realistically be.
Naturally, keeping up with the standards for high-quality care in hospital medicine is crucial, but can I really keep up to date with every important journal article that is published? Probably not – not unless I want to sleep 2 or 3 hours per night, which would turn me into a grumpy, groggy doctor, which would benefit no one. Many hospitalists, including myself, have families, and a significant draw to hospital medicine in the first place was the amount of time we would have off to spend with them and just enjoy life.
Since time is a precious commodity, why not fill our down time with useful information in the way of educational DVDs, CDs, and downloads? Yes, that’s it. My resolution is to spend much of my 14+ hours of commuting time each month gleaning useful information from a variety of sources. Some useful ones are listed below:
• Update in Hospital Medicine, a Harvard University CME.
The gifts have been opened, the decorations have come down (hopefully), and a new year has been ushered in with all the usual pomp and circumstance. Now it is time to get back to our preholiday lives. As is typically the case, I reflect on what went right or wrong last year and make promises to myself to make this year the "best year ever!" Though I am not one to go overboard making New Year’s resolutions (because I do such a poor job at keeping them), I must admit I feel a tiny twinge of excitement at the prospect of new beginnings. While a new year doesn’t necessarily mean we will make all the changes we hope for, there is something uniquely stimulating and intriguing about the possibilities it holds.
One of my loftiest goals (since my days of medical school) is to be an awe-inspiring physician with an unprecedented level of knowledge that could help me miraculously catapult my patients into the highest level of health imaginable. But since I wake up each day without a cape and a mask, I know I have to settle for being the best physician I can realistically be.
Naturally, keeping up with the standards for high-quality care in hospital medicine is crucial, but can I really keep up to date with every important journal article that is published? Probably not – not unless I want to sleep 2 or 3 hours per night, which would turn me into a grumpy, groggy doctor, which would benefit no one. Many hospitalists, including myself, have families, and a significant draw to hospital medicine in the first place was the amount of time we would have off to spend with them and just enjoy life.
Since time is a precious commodity, why not fill our down time with useful information in the way of educational DVDs, CDs, and downloads? Yes, that’s it. My resolution is to spend much of my 14+ hours of commuting time each month gleaning useful information from a variety of sources. Some useful ones are listed below:
• Update in Hospital Medicine, a Harvard University CME.