Welcome to Episode 4, where we get the perspective to 2 incredible doctors who helped me find my way as a wee resident. They shed a lot of light on humility and the many rewards of hard work in a tremendously tough learning/practice environment.

Dr. Kathleen Morrell ('10) is Associate Chair of Education and Director of Complex Family Planning at Maimonides Medical Center

Tamar Goldwaser, MD FACOG, FACMG ('10) is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist and Medical Geneticist in clinical practice at Maternal Fetal Medicine Associates in New York City and at Englewood Health in New Jersey. She is Medical Director, Cancer Genetics at Englewood Hospital.

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Dr. Woods is a Hospitalist at WellStar

Dr. Chang is Director of Medical Partnerships, Billion to One

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Some people remember everything about training or absolutely nothing. Two people can even come from the same program and have a completely different perspective even though collectively it’s a shared experience.

Residency, the pressure cooker of job training, was both extraordinary and traumatic. Everyone’s experience is personal. Some need to remember to move on and others need to forget, but then there are those that can’t do either. Theres no way to know how you’ll cope until you go through it yourself.

We laugh, we put the pieces together, we tumble…. Please join us as we begin to unpack our shared experiences and explore the impact of our training in the short and long term. I hope you enjoy and stay tuned for the next one.

Dr. Maiman, author of Every Third Night and The Rainbow Diary, GYN Oncologist and former Chairman of OBGYN at Staten Island University Hospital- North, started his medical career off at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, now known as Einstein/Montefiore OBGYN Residency.

We have a frank discussion about residency then and now, medicine, humility, passion, and what characteristics make a great doctor.

These are some Pearls of Wisdom....

*Correction: I refer to the the book The Life of Dr. Montefiore by Emmet Hirsch, MD but mispronounced the title, which is in fact, The Education of Dr. Montefiore