Time and Life Management for Medical Students and Residents - 1E

Sink or swim? Maintaining your composure and self-confidence during the residency

As grueling as medical studies and training are, with appropriate discipline and time management it is possible to stay afloat, maintain one's sanity, achieve one's goals, and still enjoy a fulfilling life. It is the purpose of this book to stimulate thought processes that nurture a healthy attitude toward organizing one's time and life so as to improve one's own quality of life as well as the patient's well-being.

Topics include:

• The macro-perspective: goals, roles, regeneration
• The micro-perspective: from goal to action
• Planning your week
• Acute disaster management: three major points
• Anxiety management and the "power of now"
• Networking; finding and working with mentors; reevaluating; learning from errors

Junior residents and interns will benefit greatly from this handy guide, as will medical students in their rotations.

Dr. Sabel has put together a succinct and imminently relatable treatise on time and life management for medical professionals. -- Critical Care Medicine

...probably the most valuable resource you will need as you enter and begin your medical residency...This handy guide is small enough to fit into your coat pocket and become your trusted companion as you go through your daily rounds visiting your patients. -- BIZ INDIA