See a recording of this session HERE.
Many thanks to Dr. Ritch Addison, long time behavioral health faculty and foundation layer for our Personal and Professional Development (P&PD) Groups that still run every Thursday at Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency.
He spent his time with us on Wednesday morning reflecting on the experience of residency training: the constant pressure, the feeling of never enough time, too much to do with the time, dying patients, asking for help vs. not asking for help, learning the ropes and the conflict and contradiction of ideals/values and visions with every day practices.
I cannot do his 40+ years of wisdom justice with a summary here (just watch the recording), but I do want to highlight and remind us of his model for Surviving Residency:
1) Covering over> the focus on mastering the procedures of medicine, which requires putting on blinders so that you can do what you have to do to get through your day/rotation/year/training.
2) Over reflecting>> too many reflections, filled with painful self-doubt, feelings of imposter syndrome, Did I make the right choice?
And, as Ritch stressed, neither state is stable. In fact, it's the jarring motion between the two modes that is what is so challenging in residency. "You need time to unload one experience and load the next, and you just don't have time".
The answer? Ritch says, is connection. A place where you can do just this -- unload the conflictual and unconscious feelings, take a step outside those jarring moments>> P&PD.
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